Thesaurus: cast iron

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1. 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.
2. n. an alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting
3. 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.
4. Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blastfurnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wroughtiron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, andsometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus,silica, etc.