"white iron" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: white irons [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} white iron (countable and uncountable, plural white irons)
  1. A kind of cast iron that contains carbon as cementite, unlike gray iron, which contains carbon as graphite. Wikipedia link: white iron Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Alloys, Iron Translations (kind of cast iron that contains carbon as cementite): 白鐵 (Chinese Mandarin), 白铁 (báitiě) (Chinese Mandarin), 馬口鐵 (Chinese Mandarin), 马口铁 (mǎkǒutiě) (Chinese Mandarin), bílá litina [feminine] (Czech), valkoinen valurauta (Finnish), fonte blanche [feminine] (French), 白鋳鉄 (Japanese), бе́лый чугу́н (bélyj čugún) [masculine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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