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pig iron

NOUN
  1. crude iron tapped from a blast furnace

How To Use pig iron In A Sentence

  • The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
  • Well, I don't know what you call interruption, but this is a complete stopper; I can't make any impression with the pick, it is as hard as rock; and then comes some of those old walls that are rather harder than granite -- you may as well pick at a cart-load of pig iron. Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
  • High content of sulphur and phosphorus impurities can seriously affect the quality of pig iron products.
  • The steel of the wreck, the cargo of pig iron and the ledges of rock are all covered in a dense red kelp, making it difficult to tell just where wreck or cargo ends and the reef continues.
  • Methods Plant; Distribution Plant, coke, bauxite, pig iron.
  • Yangcheng pig iron metallurgy process has been identified as a national intangible cultural heritage.
  • Pig iron may contain 4% of carbon.
  • The ironworks at Tannehill were a major southern producer of pig iron prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.
  • In turn, when Longdale's owner, William Firmstone smelted his first pig iron at Lucy Selina Furnace with this coke, he turned out the first iron ever produced in Virginia with this fuel.
  • The freighter carrying pig iron is cleaving through the water.
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