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white iron

noun

  1. 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

First recorded in 1525–35

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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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