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Definition of Spiegel iron

1. Noun. Pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel.

Medical Definition of Spiegel iron

1. 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. Synonym: specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen. Origin: G. Spiegel mirror + E. Iron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Spiegel iron

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1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"The method is given in the chapter on Iron in the Analysis of Iron and Steel, page 227. ANALYSIS OF spiegel iron FOR ..."

2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The method is given in the chapter on Iron in the Analysis of Iron and Steel, page 263. ANALYSIS OF spiegel iron FOR ..."

3. Natural Resources of the United States by Jacob Harris Patton (1899)
"to spiegel-iron, as it is rich in manganese, having been made by fusing together the oxides of the ores of iron and of that metal, and in addition ..."

4. Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel: With Some Notes on the by Isaac Lowthian Bell (1884)
"As the spiegel iron which is added immediately before running the steel into the ingot mould, may bring with it more carbon than is required for certain ..."

5. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"Subsequent addition of rich spiegel iron caused no evolution ot carbonic oxide, hence Tie considers that by a previous addition of ..."

6. Principles of the Manufacture of Iron & Steel, with Some Notes on the by Isaac Lowthian Bell (1884)
"As the spiegel iron which is added immediately before running the steel into the ingot mould, may bring with it more carbon than is required for certain ..."

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