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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...
Iron and steel
Iron and steel, the expression 'iron and steel' do not mean iron and steel in the original condition but also iron and steel in the shape of bars, flats and plates, State of M.B. v. Hiralalji, AIR 1966 SC 1546 (1966) 2 SCR 752. [M.B. Sales Tax Act, 1950 (30 of 1950), s. 5]...
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...
Iron
Iron, is the most useful of the metallic elements and the second most abundant in the earth's crust, after aluminium. In its elemental form or as steel, iron has supplied civilization with most of its tools and machinery, many of its products, and the bulk of its structural elements in large-scale construction. (Encyclopaedia Britannica), National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of M.P., (2004) 6 SCC 281....
Iron ores
Iron ores, means rocks or deposits containing iron-rich compounds in workable amounts; they may be primary or secondary; they may occur as irregular masses, as lodes or veins, or inter-bedded with sedimentary strata. (Chamber's Science and Technology Dictionary), National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of M.P., (2004) 6 SCC 281...
Bar iron
See under Iron...
Box iron
A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within...
Branding iron
An iron to brand with...
Brand iron
A branding iron...
Bridle iron
A strong flat bar of iron so bent as to support as in a stirrup one end of a floor timber etc where no sufficient bearing can be had called also stirrup and hanger...
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