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Used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel
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spiegeleisen
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Spiegel iron \Spie"gel i`ron\ [G. spiegel mirror + E. iron.] (Metal.) 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 ...
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Spiegeleisen (literally "mirror-iron", — mirror or specular ; Eisen — iron ) is a ferromanganese alloy containing approximately 15% manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon . Spiegeleisen is sometimes also referred to as specular pig iron , ...
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n. A ferromanganese alloy containing approximately 15% manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon.
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n. pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel [syn: spiegel , spiegel iron ]