📚 noun • entry_id 10143
cast iron
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A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould.
Cast iron is popular for cookware where an even heating temperature is important.
The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (on…
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