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pig iron

The name for the melted iron produced in a blast furnace, containing a large quantity of carbon (above 1. 5%). Named long ago when molten iron was poured through a trench in the ground to flow into shallow earthen holes, the arrangement looked like newborn pigs suckling. The central channel became known as the “sow,” and the molds were “pigs. ”

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