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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...
Cast iron
Highly carbonized iron the direct product of the blast furnace used for making castings and for conversion into wrought iron and steel It can not be welded or forged is brittle and sometimes very hard Besides carbon it contains sulphur phosphorus silica etc...
Bloomery
A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore or more rarely from cast iron...
Grapeshot
A cluster usually nine in number of small iron balls put together by means of cast iron circular plates at top and bottom with two rings and a central connecting rod in order to be used as a charge for a cannon Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags...
Puddler
One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling...
Ni resist
Cast iron consisting of graphite in a matrix of austenite...
Ni hard
Cast iron to which nickel has been added to make it resist abrasion...
Natural steel
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery or as wootz by a direct process from the ore...
Marver
A stone or cast iron plate or former on which hot glass is rolled to give it shape...
Manhegraves process
A process by which copper matte is treated by passing through it a blast of air to oxidize and remove sulphur It is analogous in apparatus to the Bessemer process for decarbonizing cast iron So called from Pierre Manhegraves a French metallurgist who invented it...
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