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Home Dictionary Name: blast pipe Page 1 of about 2 results ( seconds)Blast pipe
The exhaust pipe of a steam engine or any pipe delivering steam or air when so constructed as to cause a blast...
Cast iron
Cast iron, 'Cast iron' is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as 'a hard alloy of iron, carbon and silicon cast in a mould'. According to New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of English Language, the word 'cast iron' means 'an iron-carbon alloy produced in a blast furnace. It contains up to 4% carbon, and is more brittle, but more easily fused, than steel'. According to Van Nostrand's scientific Encyclopedia, 'cast iron' is 'primarily the product of remelting and casting pig iron'. (Interestingly, the expression 'cast-iron' - with a hyphen between 'cast' and 'iron' - has been defined separately as meaning 'made of cast iron', Bengal Iron Corpn. v. CTO, 1994 Supp (1) SCC 310: AIR 1993 SC 2414 (2417). [A.P. General Sales Tax Act, (6 of 1957)]Cast iron casting in its basic or rough form just be held to be 'cast iron'. But, if thereafter any machining or polishing or any other process is done to the rough cast iron casting to produce things like pipes, manhole covers or bends, these canno...
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