Word Meanings - CASTIRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.

• Direct-acting
  Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
• DIRECTACTION
  See Syndicalism, below.
• Forgave
  imp. of Forgive.
• WELDONSPROCESS
  A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.
• Forgetfulness
  The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
• Blastoderm
  The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
• Silicatization
  Silicification.
• Sulphurator
  An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur.
• Carbonate
  A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
• Welding
  of Weld
• Directer
  One who directs; a director.
• DIRECTCOUPLED
  Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo. Direct-coupled antenna (Wireless Teleg.), an antenna connected electrically with one point of a closed oscillation circuit in syntony with it and earthed.
• WELDSTEEL
  A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.
• Forgetive
  Inventive; productive; capable.
• Makable
  Capable of being made.
• Making-iron
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.

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