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Categories: Garden features, Casting (manufacturing), Metalworking, English inventions, Chinese inventions

cast iron cast-iron chilled casting white cast iron white iron

An alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting WordNet 3.0

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An alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content more than 2% and silicon content around 1-3%. Wikipedia

A group of iron-carbon alloys Wikipedia Disambiguation

Group of iron-carbon alloys Wikidata

Alloy of iron and carbon. OmegaWiki

A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould. Wiktionary

Hard, brittle alloy of iron, carbon, silicon. Wiktionary (translation)

Cast iron is popular for cookware where an even heating temperature is important. Wiktionary

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compacted graphite iron

gray iron

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chilled cast iron

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

SUBSTANCE MERONYM

pearlite

pig iron

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cast-iron, Cast Iron, chilled casting, white cast iron, white iron