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A commercial iron that contains up to 1.7 percent carbon.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted...
  • It is also not impossible that artists may have already invented what we call steel pens.
  • The entrance of this house is decorated by a piece of art in steel which is called “Family”.
  • The "northern iron" of (Jeremiah 15: 12) is believed more nearly to correspond to what we call steel
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