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white iron
noun
- cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white iron1
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Example Sentences
The white iron cots are neat as well as comfortable, and there should be a good mattress always.
She went to the side of a small white iron bed in which lay a boy of eight and another of three.
He went on to the house with the white iron images in the front yard.
The rooms were all perfectly bare and bleak-looking: white walls, white iron beds, curtainless windows and carpetless floors.
The only alloy of iron interesting to the arts, is that with tin, in the formation of tin-plate, or white-iron.
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