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  • 111steel — I. noun Etymology: Middle English stele, from Old English stȳle, stēle; akin to Old High German stahal steel and perhaps to Sanskrit stakati he resists Date: before 12th century 1. commercial iron that contains carbon in any amount up to about 1 …

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  • 112carbon steel — steel owing its properties principally to its carbon content; ordinary, unalloyed steel. [1900 05] * * * Alloy of iron and carbon in which the carbon content may range from less than 0. 015% to slightly more than 2%. Adding this tiny amount of… …

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  • 113iron — i|ron1 W2S3 [ˈaıən US ˈaıərn] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(metal)¦ 2¦(for clothes)¦ 3 have several irons in the fire 4¦(sport)¦ 5¦(chains)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [: Old English; Origin: isern, iren] 1.) ¦(METAL)¦[U] a common hard metal that is used to make steel, is ↑ …

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  • 114Iron meteorite — Tamentit Iron Meteorite, found in 1864 in the Sahara Desert,[1] weight about 500 kg. On display at Vulcania park in France …

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  • 115Iron Curtain — The Iron Curtain was the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1991. At both sides of the Iron Curtain, the states… …

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  • 116Iron Mountain, Michigan — Infobox Settlement official name = Iron Mountain, Michigan settlement type = City nickname = motto = imagesize = image caption = image imagesize = image caption = image mapsize = 250px map caption = Location of Iron Mountain, Michigan mapsize1 =… …

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  • 117Iron (appliance) — An iron is a small appliance used in ironing to remove wrinkles from fabric.FeaturesModern irons for home use can feature the following: * A method for setting the iron down, usually standing on its end, without the hot soleplate touching… …

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  • 118iron blue — noun 1. slightly purplish or bluish dark grey • Syn: ↑steel grey, ↑steel gray, ↑Davy s grey, ↑Davy s gray • Hypernyms: ↑gray, ↑grayness, ↑grey, ↑greyness …

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  • 119Steel detailer — A steel detailer is a person who produces detailed drawings for steel fabricators and steel erectors. The detailer prepares detailed plans, drawings and other documents for the manufacture and erection of steel members (columns, beams, braces,… …

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  • 120Steel Valley (Pittsburgh) — Christopher Columbus first settledd in the Steel Valley area of post industrial and industrial concentration along the upper Ohio River valley as well as the Monongahela River all the way to the West Virginia border. It has also has included most …

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