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Meaning of "pig iron" in the English dictionary

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pig iron


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIG IRON

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Pig iron is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PIG IRON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pig iron

Pig iron is the intermediate product of smelting iron ore with a high-carbon fuel such as coke, usually with limestone as a flux. It is the molten iron from the blast furnace, which is a large and cylinder-shaped furnace charged with iron ore, coke, and limestone.Charcoal and anthracite have also been used as fuel. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.5–4.5%, along with silica and other constituents of dross, which makes it very brittle and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications. The traditional shape of the molds used for pig iron ingots was a branching structure formed in sand, with many individual ingots at right angles to a central channel or runner. Such a configuration is similar in appearance to a litter of piglets being suckled by a sow. When the metal had cooled and hardened, the smaller ingots were simply broken from the much thinner runner, hence the name pig iron. As pig iron is intended for remelting, the uneven size of the ingots and the inclusion of small amounts of sand caused only insignificant problems considering the ease of casting and handling them.

Definition of pig iron in the English dictionary

The definition of pig iron in the dictionary is crude iron produced in a blast furnace and poured into moulds in preparation for making wrought iron, steels, alloys, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIG IRON

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PIG IRON

angle iron · cast iron · channel iron · corrugated iron · curling iron · galvanised iron · galvanized iron · ingot iron · iron · leg iron · malleable cast iron · malleable iron · pump iron · scrap iron · shooting iron · smoothing iron · soft iron · soldering iron · steam iron · waffle iron · wrought iron

Synonyms and antonyms of pig iron in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «pig iron» into 25 languages

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The translations of pig iron from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pig iron» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

生铁
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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arrabio
570 millions of speakers
en

English

pig iron
510 millions of speakers
hi

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पिग आयरन
380 millions of speakers
ar

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الحديد الخام
280 millions of speakers
ru

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чугуна
278 millions of speakers
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gusa
270 millions of speakers
bn

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কাঁচা লোহা
260 millions of speakers
fr

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de fonte en gueuses
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ms

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Besi babi
190 millions of speakers
de

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Roheisen
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ja

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銑鉄
130 millions of speakers
ko

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선철
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Pig iron
85 millions of speakers
vi

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gang
80 millions of speakers
ta

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பன்றி இரும்பு
75 millions of speakers
mr

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डुक्कर लोखंडी
75 millions of speakers
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dökme demir
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ghisa
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surówka
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uk

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чавуну
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fontă
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el

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χυτοσίδηρος
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ru-yster
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tackjärn
10 millions of speakers
no

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råjern
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIG IRON»

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Pig Iron Trucker: A Jericho Book
Dosia Outhe, adopted daughter of Anna Mae and Helio C. Outhe lay without covers, and with the sunshine blinking her eyes awake. Birds chirruped outside her window and a pleasant gurgle reached her ears from the Black Sucker River that ...
T. F. Platt, 2011
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Observations on the proposed Tax on Pig-iron. By an Iron-master
From the returns lately collected from the different parts of the Empire, it appears there are in Great Britain 220 blast furnaces, of which 169 were at work last year, and made 249,5oo tons of Pig Iron (twelve years ago the quantity of Pig Iron ...
‎1806
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F. W. Taylor: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management
The term "casts" was used at Bethlehem at this time to refer to the "frame or molding flask" used in casting pig-iron. For data on these molding flasks see (5, p . 230; 12, p. 1). Taylor simply increased the amount of iron to be loaded by some  ...
John Cunningham Wood, Michael C. Wood, 2002
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Steel Industry I: Manufacturing System
Such high pressure operating techniques have now become generalized, and together with other technological advances, have brought about a great increase in the quantity of pig iron obtained per unit capacity of the blast furnace. Before the ...
Tadao Kawaguchi, Kenji Sugiyama, 1989
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The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry
Accordingly, Tables 3.9 through 3.11 include technical input coefficients for five commodities used in pig iron production: (1) coke, (2) iron ore, (3) natural gas, (4) electricity and (5) scrap metal. Where site specific coefficients were not obtained,  ...
Craig ZumBrunnen, Jeffrey Osleeb, 1986
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Estimates of Population 1904, 1905, 1906: Including the ...
Following the same line of deduction, the metal yield from foreign iron ore, and mill cinder, scrap, scale, etc., is estimated for 1905 as 1,536,323 tons, and when this is deducted from the total pig iron product, 15,091,971 tons of pig iron remain  ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, 1907
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Census of Manufactures
As explained in the report of the Twelfth Census on puting the product derived from all material other than ; pig iron production, no statistics of the consumption domestic iron ore. Following the same line of deduc- 1 of foreign iron ore by blast  ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, 1908
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The International Exhibition of 1862
Iron ore from Baflingsberg Mine, pig-iron, Bessemer steel in ingots, rolled, and in sheets. 32. KOOKUM, F. H. Malmb'.—Copper ores from Virum Mines. 33. KU' LLANDER, C. G. Kjellsviken, Dals— land—Slate for roofing. 36. LANDSTROM, C.
Anonymous, Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Comprehensive Workshop Technology
1 Introduction, 7.2 Iron ores, 7.3 Pig iron, 7.3. 1 Composition of pig iron, 7.3.2 Classification of pig iron, 7.4 Cast iron, 7.4. 1 Manufacturing of cast iron, 7.4.2 Effect of constituent elements on cast iron, 7.4.3 Types of cast iron, 7.5 Wrought iron, ...
S.K. Garg, 2009
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Atomic Absorption Spectrometry
TABLE 1 ELEMENTS DETERMINED BY AAS ROUTINE ANALYSIS IN DIFFERENT MATERIALS Elements Materials Al Steel, pig iron, cast iron, ferro alloys, ores, slags, refractories, furnace dust, slurry, auxiliary cast materials, isolates, fats B ...
J.E. Cantle, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIG IRON»

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Posco's Finex plant likely to be shifted to India by Oct
Mesco Steel operates two blast furnaces in its plant at Kalinganagar and the hot metal is cast as pig iron. The company also operates an iron ... «Financial Express, Jul 15»
2
Russian corporates prepare foreign debt blitz
Along with Sberbank and Citi, it has just closed a $150m debt exchange for IMH, an exporter of pig iron and producer of merchant coke, which ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
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Jindal Saw Q1 net profit shoots 90% to Rs 104.22 crore
It produced 3.60 LT of pig iron pellets as compared to 3 LT during the same period. On outlook, the firm said that continuous weakness in oil ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
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Morningstar Gives "A-" Credit Rating to Nucor (NUE)
It also processes ferrous and nonferrous metals and brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron (HBI) and DRI. Nucor ... «Dakota Financial News, Jul 15»
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Posted: Sunday, July 26, 2015 1:52 pm
The Jackson Fire Department's Pig Iron Days will be held at Manpower Park. There will be a car show (Registration from 9 a.m. to noon. «Jackson County Times-Journal, Jul 15»
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The nickel price can only go up
Chinese stocks are now at a four-year low and at the same time Chinese pig iron production is set to decline – opening up the market for ... «MINING.com, Jul 15»
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Park friends discuss what to do to save lakes
Villani, who owns Pig Iron Press and Lost Pages Bookstore in downtown Youngstown, added that the area can't afford to wait any longer to get ... «Youngstown Vindicator, Jul 15»
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Global June pig iron output down 1.7% to 97.5 million mt
Global pig iron production declined in June by 1.7% year on year, due to continued dips in Chinese, US, and Ukrainian output, according to ... «Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide, Jul 15»
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World pig iron output down 3.6 percent in June from May
In June this year, world pig iron production amounted to 97.48 million mt, decreasing by 3.6 percent compared to May and by 1.7 percent ... «SteelOrbis, Jul 15»
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To expand ductline biz; margins to be tight: Tata Metaliks
Production of pig iron by integrated steel companies and decrease in scrap prices is hurting specialist pig iron producers like Tata Metaliks, ... «Moneycontrol.com, Jul 15»
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