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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
iron
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a paracetamol/quinine/iron etc tablet
▪ She's on iron tablets for her anaemia.
a stone/wooden/iron bridge
▪ The iron bridge was built in 1811.
a wooden/iron/wrought-iron gate
▪ Their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates.
an iron will (also a will of iron) (= an extremely strong will)
▪ Her unassuming manner concealed an iron will.
an iron/vice-like grip (=a very strong grip)
▪ Victor took hold of her wrist in an iron grip.
branding iron
cast iron
do the shopping/cleaning/ironing/cooking etc
▪ Who does the cooking in your family?
fire iron
grappling iron
Iron Age
Iron Curtain, the
iron foundry
▪ an iron foundry
iron lung
iron rations
ironing board
iron/vitamin etc deficiency
▪ Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency in their diet.
leg irons
metal/steel/iron plates
▪ The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.
pig iron
seam of coal/iron etc
soldering iron
steam iron
steel/iron/wooden etc rod
▪ The walls are reinforced with steel rods.
the Iron Age (=the period of time, about 3,000 years ago, when iron was first used for making tools, weapons etc)
waffle iron
wrought iron
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cast
▪ The first telephone boxes were designed by Sir Giles Scott in 1935, they were made of cast iron.
▪ They're shipping out cast iron baths, washbasins and tiles to the Land of the Rising Sun.
▪ Left: Combine heating and cooking with traditional cast iron stove style.
▪ Anyone want a cast iron bath?
▪ Built in 1836-9, it weighs 1,700t, holds 940t of water and is the largest cast iron aqueduct in the world.
▪ Columns of cast iron doubled as drainpipes and supports for the ceiling, which had domed skylights.
▪ It replaces two ole cast iron systems and will significantly increase production.
▪ Repairing leaks in cast iron gutters Remove the old gutter bolt.
corrugated
▪ Their planking was patched with corrugated iron, their roofs shingled with flattened tin cans.
▪ From then on, Stafford Road was flanked by a long black corrugated iron fence.
▪ Instead I was directed to a three-roomed brick house with corrugated iron roofing.
▪ Refurbished on a budget of £20, the shop is kitted out with old tyres, corrugated iron and scaffolding.
▪ A ground party was immediately organised to manhandle the aircraft on to sheets of corrugated iron positioned on the tarmac.
▪ I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here.
▪ The mill still stands and is a curious mixture of brick, elm, slate and corrugated iron.
▪ Instead, they are either covered with a corrugated iron roof or are in the street.
hot
▪ The blood from my wound ran over my back and chest, and the knife seemed to burn like hot iron.
▪ In order for this separation to have taken place, the interior must have become hot enough for iron to melt.
▪ This involved either burning the skin over the tendon, or inserting red hot iron pins into the tendon itself.
▪ It will pay to have a tough template for cutting by scalpel, hot iron or roller-cutter.
▪ In general, designers no longer work with a heap of transistors and a hot soldering iron.
▪ He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron.
old
▪ The candlelight revealed that the room was packed with old iron bathtubs which were full of wooden rocking horses.
▪ Shreds of plastic, old iron, glass, animal bones littered both sides of the path.
▪ An old galvanised iron cistern is liable to spring a leak eventually.
▪ His head must have fallen almost directly on top of one of the tall spikes that surmounted the old iron rail.
▪ Eventually, though, old cast iron systems will need repair.
▪ As we swept down to the seam in the old iron lift we all grabbed each other's hands in simultaneous panic.
▪ Getting rid of PAHs requires the replacement of old cast iron mains lined with coal tar paper.
wrought
▪ The wrought iron gate, as usual, was open and he parked in front of the house.
▪ Each side has a cast iron arch in 7 segments from which the iron trough is hung by 35 wrought iron rods.
▪ Steel, however, rusts much more quickly than wrought iron.
▪ Decorative projecting bricks, alcoves, wrought iron gates, and so on, are a security risk.
▪ There was a fancy grille like a wrought iron gate at the rear end of the dash under the stairs.
▪ Gates gone: Tyneside police are investigating a spate of thefts of wrought iron garden gates.
▪ The stained-glass windows inside, and the black wrought iron and living or artificial flowers outside, contribute vivid accents.
▪ Stripped floorboards teamed up with rattan furniture and wrought iron gives a look that complements.
■ NOUN
age
▪ It was found in what was a pool in the iron age.
▪ The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age.
▪ Madsebakke - unique iron Age rock carvings.
bar
▪ All the ground floor windows were fitted with iron bars, a sufficient deterrent for the average break-and-enter boys.
▪ Dignified old rowhouses on historic Mount Vernon Square were marred by iron bars on their windows.
▪ A somewhat different system simulated the effect of momentarily jamming an iron bar across the terminals in the substation.
▪ A heavy iron bar lay on the floor beside my left hand.
▪ And no sign of chains or a whip or iron bars.
▪ The windows are guarded with iron bars, those on the lower floors viciously spiked to keep out thieves.
▪ A framework of iron bars is placed across the top and this supports fine mesh netting.
▪ They ceased to be fortresses protected by strong doors and iron bars and became elegant shops with windows in place of grilles.
bridge
▪ The floodwater, carrying branches and driftwood, was over the roadway on the curved iron bridge.
▪ Called Tickford Bridge, it is said to be the oldest iron bridge in Britain still in constant use.
chain
▪ The huge beast strained at the great iron chain clasped to the collar round its neck.
▪ Frederick's bed is said to be still in the palace, hanging from iron chains.
▪ The prisoners wore handcuffs, and iron chains on their legs.
▪ On the floor beside her was a convict's iron chain.
▪ I felt sure the iron chain belonged to my convict, but I did not think he had attacked my sister.
▪ Above it, hanging from an old iron chain, hung a bevelled mirror.
▪ He was dressed in grey, too, and had an iron chain on his leg.
deficiency
▪ Crohn's disease is often associated with iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ Ten patients had died all unrelated to the iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ Therefore sigmoidoscopy should be mandatory as part of the investigation of patients with iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ The need for sigmoidoscopy in patients with obscure iron deficiency anaemia is contentious.
▪ This survey also allowed us to analyse the usefulness of investigations in iron deficiency anaemia in outpatients.
▪ The need to investigate the colon in outpatients referred with iron deficiency anaemia has not previously been assessed.
▪ Severe erosive oesophagitis may be a cause of iron deficiency anaemia but hiatus hernia alone seems unlikely to cause iron deficiency anaemia.
fist
▪ Nowadays we need the iron fist of policing in order that we might sleep soundly in our beds.
▪ Ace swung round, her gauntlets curled into iron fists.
▪ The protuberance under her fingers felt soft and hard at the same time, an iron fist in a velvet glove.
foundry
▪ Along the length of the railway line were timber yards, rope works, maltings and an iron foundry.
▪ Livings was their architect for the iron foundry at Stockton, which John now had ideas of enlarging.
▪ They also make more noise than two iron foundries having a fight.
gate
▪ Within a dozen yards, I came to a set of iron gates closing off the steps east of the high altar.
▪ An ornate iron gate presided over its entrance.
▪ They walked towards the tall iron gates of the school.
▪ The wrought iron gate, as usual, was open and he parked in front of the house.
▪ Each house had an iron gate and a short tiled path up to the front door.
▪ I awoke to find myself still standing before the water-colour painting of the curled iron gate.
▪ Decorative projecting bricks, alcoves, wrought iron gates, and so on, are a security risk.
▪ At the entrance to the driveway were large iron gates.
grip
▪ She was just about to call out when she felt the iron grip of an arm clasped round her throat.
▪ So although Milosevic s iron grip over Kosovo was an embarrassment for the West, it was a convenience too.
hand
▪ Its political platform is brief: the iron hand against Communism to save private enterprise.
▪ This theology slipped over the iron hand of the capitalist market like a silk glove.
▪ Smith said that Coleman was a dictator and monopolist, ruling with an iron hand in military and civil life.
▪ The iron hand of the Conservative administration's first 5 years gave way to sermons on personal responsibility.
leg
▪ From now on, these items will be included in the existing export ban of leg irons, shackles and gang chains.
▪ Only the eerie tinkle of leg irons and shouted commands break the silence.
▪ Prohibited items should include gallows and leg irons.
▪ The first man picked up the end and threaded it through the loop on his leg iron.
▪ There they had spent fourteen days in solitary confinement, chained in heavy leg irons and fed only on dry rice.
▪ The leg irons of the white prisoners inside were clattering.
lung
▪ Hospitals often grouped iron lungs in the open space around the nurses' station or even in view in the hallways.
▪ Encased in iron lungs, tortured victims vainly chased slumber through long, fitful nights.
▪ Ideally, hospitals provided each iron lung patient a single nurse, but few hospitals could manage that, especially during epidemics.
▪ When possible, nurses took patients out of their iron lungs for bathing and cleaning.
ore
▪ Many of the ships also carried iron ore.
▪ Supplies of the raw material, iron ore, changed.
▪ The greater abundance of iron ores over those of copper also meant that iron was more readily obtainable and cheaper.
▪ These ironworks were built in 173 6 and were worked for 130 years, exploiting local iron ore deposits.
▪ The iron and steel industry of Rotherham exists because long ago iron ore was mined locally as well as coal.
▪ Most of this local iron ore was mined from shallow pits and from adits dug into the valley sides.
▪ Here there are thick deposits of iron ore near the base of some rocks of oolitic limestone which are of Jurassic age.
▪ The iron ore is easily extracted by quarrying with giant excavators.
oxide
▪ One of the most popular has been carnelian, which owes its reddish colour to the presence of iron oxide.
▪ The gas was to reduce iron oxide to make iron which could later be fed to a steel works.
▪ Rust, iron oxide, is weak mechanically although its chemical bonds are strong.
▪ Traditionally, iron oxide is converted to the metal in a blast furnace.
▪ This coloration shows the presence of iron oxides.
▪ Mineralisation within the nodules consists of uranium, vanadium and iron oxides with base metal sulphides.
railing
▪ Terrified, Mildred backed away and crashed into something hard, which seemed to be a huge iron railing towering above her.
▪ He paused when he saw her by the iron railings that separated mown lawn from pasture.
▪ The cottage still has a panel of slender iron railings in front.
▪ She could see the iron railings of the park, the glitter of wet pavement.
▪ The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers.
▪ The iron railings were so dusty, they looked grey, not black.
▪ Nightshade House was separated from the street by a flagged courtyard, the general approach defended by iron railings.
▪ The Mount was a shadow in the air and the iron railings along the promenade dripped globules of moisture.
rod
▪ Each side has a cast iron arch in 7 segments from which the iron trough is hung by 35 wrought iron rods.
▪ It led to the birth of the jumper a slender iron rod with a chisel-end forged by the mine smiths.
steam
▪ I have one rule - I never use a steam iron on my lace jumpers.
▪ It is the vapour tank that is the key to the machine's alleged superiority over other steam irons.
▪ Throwaway society Over the last year, I have had to replace my steam iron and hairdryer that had both developed faults.
▪ The old cracked mug, the steam iron, odd pieces of cutlery and the reading lamp.
▪ I could not live without a steam iron, or an electric kettle.
■ VERB
pump
▪ And keeping in shape with her is a lot better than pumping iron.
▪ Before I met her I used to pump iron.
▪ They pump iron for hours every morning.
▪ Yes, even his face was muscular, as though he pumped iron with his ears.
▪ In any case, farmer's boys have no time to make hay before they are pumping iron not milk.
strike
▪ Maybe he would even mount a punitive expedition tonight, striking while the iron was hot, and all that.
▪ So, it should strike while the iron is hot and go to the country as soon as possible.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clap sb in prison/jail/irons
galvanized iron/metal etc
iron out the wrinkles
pump iron
▪ And keeping in shape with her is a lot better than pumping iron.
▪ Before I met her I used to pump iron.
▪ In any case, farmer's boys have no time to make hay before they are pumping iron not milk.
▪ They pump iron for hours every morning.
▪ Yes, even his face was muscular, as though he pumped iron with his ears.
rule sb with an iron fist/hand
rule sb/sth with a rod of iron
strike while the iron is hot
▪ Don't wait until tomorrow before you tell him, strike while the iron is hot!
▪ So, it should strike while the iron is hot and go to the country as soon as possible.
the Iron Age
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ iron ore
▪ a window with iron bars on it
▪ My doctor said I need more iron in my diet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron.
▪ Prohibited items should include gallows and leg irons.
▪ Start with a five-hundred pound piece of cast iron sitting on the floor.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ It's about time he got his six iron out for a birdie.
▪ Frequent face-to-face meetings iron out any problems and come up with interface and process improvements.
▪ The finer details of the proposals from Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine still have to be ironed out.
▪ And because the band went into a rehab center to iron out its differences, rumors spread about drug use.
▪ Although the first generation of women priests had to fight to assert their identity, those problems have been ironed out.
▪ The briefing indicated that the two sides still have substantial differences to iron out.
▪ Most of the notorious grade anomalies have been ironed out and the colour photos should whet people's appetites.
▪ As it happened, the resolution of this issue never really reached the stage of the researchers ironing out their differences.
■ NOUN
problem
▪ If something doesn't happen it's your responsibility to iron any problems out.
▪ Frequent face-to-face meetings iron out any problems and come up with interface and process improvements.
▪ They know exactly who can help you buy a train ticket, who can iron away which problem.
shirt
▪ Diana was so chummy with him she even used to iron his shirts.
▪ Margaret had ironed me some shirts and draped them over a clothes-horse in the hail.
▪ Well, he can iron his best shirts.
▪ As the neatly ironed shirt billows out a special effect signifies the effects of Bold.
▪ Do you want to iron his shirts for 50 years?
■ VERB
wash
▪ I wished for a new dress as I washed and ironed my old yellow home-made mini for the hundredth time.
▪ Saturdays and she was tired and worn out with the cleaning, shopping, washing, ironing.
▪ Encourage residents to wash and iron their clothes where their eyesight and co-ordination are good.
▪ The following afternoon he struggled into the white loons, which he had washed and ironed himself.
▪ All washing and ironing is outsourced.
▪ She was soon taking in washing and ironing, the time-honored work of black women.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
galvanized iron/metal etc
iron out the wrinkles
the Iron Age
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I need to iron a few shirts for my trip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he conceded that there were some kinks to iron out.
▪ She ironed their tiny strips of white embroidered cuffs and collars herself, and sewed them on fresh nearly every day.
▪ The finer details of the proposals from Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine still have to be ironed out.
III.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fist
▪ But he offered not only an iron fist to Hanoi there was a velvet glove also.
hand
▪ Privileges and prerogatives are revoked; the iron hand of supervisory control is brought to bear.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clap sb in prison/jail/irons
iron out the wrinkles
pump iron
▪ And keeping in shape with her is a lot better than pumping iron.
▪ Before I met her I used to pump iron.
▪ In any case, farmer's boys have no time to make hay before they are pumping iron not milk.
▪ They pump iron for hours every morning.
▪ Yes, even his face was muscular, as though he pumped iron with his ears.
rule sb with an iron fist/hand
rule sb/sth with a rod of iron
strike while the iron is hot
▪ Don't wait until tomorrow before you tell him, strike while the iron is hot!
▪ So, it should strike while the iron is hot and go to the country as soon as possible.
the Iron Age
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ iron discipline
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he offered not only an iron fist to Hanoi there was a velvet glove also.
▪ He lay on his narrow iron bed, whose cheap cotton slip was decorated with repeated figures of Donald Duck.
▪ New Labour is itself a product of the iron cage.
▪ She went quickly; by afternoon, she was in the iron lung and she died the next morning.
▪ The addition of iron oxide produced a darker brown colour in the glaze under reducing conditions.
▪ This is a fast-paced, heartwarming story of a huge iron man who emerges from the sea to terrify the neighborhood.
▪ This is because the center of gravity of the hammer is in the iron part.
▪ Those that had iron gratings locked them across the plate glass.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
iron

Irony \I"ron*y\, a. [From Iron.]

  1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles; -- In this sense iron is the more common term. [R.]
    --Woodward.

  2. Resembling iron in taste, hardness, or other physical property.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
iron

Old English isærn (with Middle English rhotacism of -s-) "the metal iron; an iron weapon," from Proto-Germanic *isarnan (cognates: Old Saxon isarn, Old Norse isarn, Middle Dutch iser, Old High German isarn, German Eisen) "holy metal" or "strong metal" (in contrast to softer bronze) probably an early borrowing of Celtic *isarnon (compare Old Irish iarnhaiarn), from PIE *is-(e)ro- "powerful, holy," from PIE *eis "strong" (cognates: Sanskrit isirah "vigorous, strong," Greek ieros "strong").Right so as whil that Iren is hoot men sholden smyte. [Chaucer, c.1386]\nChemical symbol Fe is from the Latin word for the metal, ferrum (see ferro-). Meaning "metal device used to press or smooth clothes" is from 1610s. The adjective is Old English iren, isern. To have (too) many irons in the fire "to be doing too much at once" is from 1540s. Iron lung "artificial respiration tank" is from 1932.

iron

c.1400, irenen, "to make of iron," from iron (n.). Meaning "press clothes" (with a heated flat-iron) is recorded from 1670s. Related: Ironed; ironing.

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Wiktionary
iron

  1. 1 (context not comparable English) Made of the metal iron. 2 (context figuratively English) strong (as of will), inflexible. n. (context uncountable English) A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases. 2 (context transitive archaic English) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff. 3 (context transitive English) To furnish or arm with iron.

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WordNet
iron

adj. extremely robust; "an iron constitution" [syn: cast-iron]

iron

v. press and smooth with a heated iron; "press your shirts" [syn: iron out]

iron

  1. n. a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood [syn: Fe, atomic number 26]

  2. a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head

  3. metal shackles; for hands or legs [syn: irons, chain, chains]

  4. implement used to brand live stock [syn: branding iron]

  5. home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth [syn: smoothing iron]

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Gazetteer
Iron -- U.S. County in Michigan
Population (2000): 13138
Housing Units (2000): 8772
Land area (2000): 1166.355280 sq. miles (3020.846180 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 44.665114 sq. miles (115.682109 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1211.020394 sq. miles (3136.528289 sq. km)
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 46.196152 N, 88.561747 W
Headwords:
Iron
Iron, MI
Iron County
Iron County, MI
Iron -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 10697
Housing Units (2000): 4907
Land area (2000): 551.339034 sq. miles (1427.961482 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.713741 sq. miles (1.848581 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 552.052775 sq. miles (1429.810063 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.539303 N, 90.743905 W
Headwords:
Iron
Iron, MO
Iron County
Iron County, MO
Iron -- U.S. County in Utah
Population (2000): 33779
Housing Units (2000): 13618
Land area (2000): 3297.975636 sq. miles (8541.717322 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.865699 sq. miles (10.012113 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3301.841335 sq. miles (8551.729435 sq. km)
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 37.784276 N, 113.227675 W
Headwords:
Iron
Iron, UT
Iron County
Iron County, UT
Iron -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 6861
Housing Units (2000): 5706
Land area (2000): 757.232077 sq. miles (1961.221992 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 162.006563 sq. miles (419.595054 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 919.238640 sq. miles (2380.817046 sq. km)
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 46.283595 N, 90.203904 W
Headwords:
Iron
Iron, WI
Iron County
Iron County, WI
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Wikipedia
Iron (disambiguation)

Iron is a metal and element.

Iron may also refer to:

Iron (Silent Stream of Godless Elegy album)

Iron is an album by Moravian ( Czech Republic) folk metal band Silent Stream of Godless Elegy, originally released in 1996 by Leviathan Records.

Iron (Ensiferum album)

Iron is the second full-length album by folk metal band Ensiferum. This is the last album featuring Jari Mäenpää before he formed Wintersun the same year.

Iron (metaphor)

Iron, when used metaphorically, refers to certain traits of the metal iron. Used as an adjective and sometimes as a noun, it refers to something stern, harsh, unyielding, inflexible, rigid, sturdy, strong, robust, hard. It is sometimes used for something technological ( iron lung) or not technologically advanced ( iron bomb).

Iron (Nicky Romero and Calvin Harris song)

"Iron" is a song by Nicky Romero and Calvin Harris. The song was released as a single, via Beatport. It became the second single to be released through Romero's label Protocol Recordings (after "WTF!?" with ZROQ), and the first single from the label to reach number-one on Beatport. A shortened version of the song was later included in Harris' third studio album, 18 Months (2012).

Iron (Woodkid song)

"Iron" is the debut single by Woodkid (real name Yoann Lemoine) taken from his album The Golden Age that was prepared in 2011 but released in 2013. It was written by Yoann Lemoine himself and arrangements by Gustave Rudman. The single was released on March 28, 2011. This song gained immense popularity after being used in a trailer for Assassin's Creed: Revelations.

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ) and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is by mass the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust. Its abundance in rocky planets like Earth is due to its abundant production by fusion in high-mass stars, where the production of nickel-56 (which decays to the most common isotope of iron) is the last nuclear fusion reaction that is exothermic. Consequently, radioactive nickel is the last element to be produced before the violent collapse of a supernova, which scatters this precursor radionuclide of stable iron into space.

Like the other group 8 elements, ruthenium and osmium, iron exists in a wide range of oxidation states, −2 to +6, although +2 and +3 are the most common. Elemental iron occurs in meteoroids and other low oxygen environments, but is reactive to oxygen and water. Fresh iron surfaces appear lustrous silvery-gray, but oxidize in normal air to give hydrated iron oxides, commonly known as rust. Unlike the metals that form passivating oxide layers, iron oxides occupy more volume than the metal and thus flake off, exposing fresh surfaces for corrosion.

Iron metal has been used since ancient times, although copper alloys, which have lower melting temperatures, were used even earlier in human history. Pure iron is relatively soft, but is unobtainable by smelting because it is significantly hardened and strengthened by impurities, in particular carbon, from the smelting process. A certain proportion of carbon (between 0.002% and 2.1%) produces steel, which may be up to 1000 times harder than pure iron. Crude iron metal is produced in blast furnaces, where ore is reduced by coke to pig iron, which has a high carbon content. Further refinement with oxygen reduces the carbon content to the correct proportion to make steel. Steels and iron alloys formed with other metals ( alloy steels) are by far the most common industrial metals because they have a great range of desirable properties and iron-bearing rock is abundant.

Iron chemical compounds have many uses. Iron oxide mixed with aluminium powder can be ignited to create a thermite reaction, used in welding and purifying ores. Iron forms binary compounds with the halogens and the chalcogens. Among its organometallic compounds is ferrocene, the first sandwich compound discovered.

Iron plays an important role in biology, forming complexes with molecular oxygen in hemoglobin and myoglobin; these two compounds are common oxygen transport proteins in vertebrates. Iron is also the metal at the active site of many important redox enzymes dealing with cellular respiration and oxidation and reduction in plants and animals. A human male of average height has about 4 grams of iron in his body, a female about 3.5 grams. This iron is distributed throughout the body in hemoglobin, tissues, muscles, bone marrow, blood proteins, enzymes, ferritin, hemosiderin, and transport in plasma.

Iron (golf)

An iron is a type of club used in the sport of golf to propel the ball towards the hole. Irons typically have shorter shafts and smaller clubheads than woods, the head is made of solid iron or steel, and the head's primary feature is a large, flat, angled face, usually scored with grooves. Irons are used in a wide variety of situations, typically from the teeing ground on shorter holes, from the fairway or rough as the player approaches the green, and to extract the ball from hazards, such as bunkers or even shallow water hazards.

Irons are the most common type of club; a standard set of 14 golf clubs will usually contain between 7 and 11 irons, including wedges. Irons are customarily differentiated by a number from 1 to 10 (most commonly 3 to 9) that indicates the relative angle of loft on the clubface, although a set of irons will also vary in clubhead size, shaft length, and hence lie angle as the loft (and number) increase. Irons with higher loft than the numbered irons are called wedges, which are typically marked with a letter indicating their name, and are used for a variety of "utility" shots requiring short distance and/or a high launch angle.

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Usage examples of "iron".

Hence the sulphuretted hydrogen must be boiled off and the iron removed as basic ferric acetate by the method described on p.

The small quantity of white flocculent precipitate which may be observed in the acetic acid solution before titrating, contains the whole of the iron as ferric arsenate.

The iron is reduced to the ferrous state and phosphate of alumina precipitated in an acetic acid solution.

In the case of ferric salts, half the quantity of acetic acid will be better, as then the ferric iron will be precipitated, and a colourless solution will be left, in which the end reaction is more readily distinguished.

He had been with Mwynwen frequently, either in his own chambers or her house, resting and leaching out of his body the subliminal aches and slight sickness that extended exposure to iron caused .

Vesta resembles a kind of meteorite called a basaltic achondrite, while 16 Psyche and 22 Kalliope appear to be largely iron.

Venerian lives upon the bottom of an everlasting sea of fog and his thin epidermis, utterly without pigmentation, burns and blisters as frightfully at the least exposure to actinic light as does ours at the touch of a red-hot iron.

Sheets of immeasurable fire, and veins Of gold and stone, and adamantine iron.

The specific treatment, which should not be omitted, consists in administering doses of ten drops of the tincture of the muriate of iron in alternation with teaspoonful doses of the Golden Medical Discovery, every three hours.

Mourzoufle, an iron mace in his hand, visiting the posts, and affecting the part and aspect of a warrior, was an object of terror to his soldiers, at least, and to his kinsmen.

Juss, enforcing his half frozen limbs to resume the ascent, beheld a sight of woe too terrible for the eye: a young man, helmed and graithed in dark iron, a black-a-moor with goggle-eyes and white teeth agrin, who held by the neck a fair young lady kneeling on her knees and clasping his as in supplication, and he most bloodily brandishing aloft his spear of six foot of length as minded to reave her of her life.

Broken stone and iron gashed her bare feet as she plunged into the black arch of the gate, but the pain was swallowed in icy fear as thin, aimless winds tugged at heras she sensed, rather than saw, something move in the utter blackness over her head.

A squalid alameda where there stood a rotting brushwood gazebo and a few old iron benches.

The largest of those was taller than Alayne, with iron bands girding its dark brown staves.

Twenty minutes later, Jake sat waist-deep in a steaming galvanized iron bath, set out alfresco under the mahogany trees.