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Spiegel iron
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Spiegel iron
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Spiegel iron has 1 sense
- spiegel iron(n = noun.substance) spiegel, spiegeleisen - pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel; Array is a kind of pig iron
CIDE DICTIONARY
Spiegel iron, [G. spiegel mirror + E. iron.].
A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron , spiegel , and spiegeleisen . [1913 Webster]
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