"Most bars of metal are called ingots," said Julian, going red with excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Five On A Treasure Island]
But it was more than half full of gold ingots; that is to say the ingots were packed in rows of twenty each athwart the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference
Now someone would study that map and perhaps jump to what 'ingots' meant. From Wordnik.com. [Five On A Treasure Island]
It is a day's harvest of ingots from the stamps of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
The fifth offered to their sight piles of gold and silver ingots. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The author introduced his new mode of treating ingots at the Darlington. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference
There are two furnaces for heating large ingots and blooms for forgings. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Above, preparing ingots at the Argor-Heraeus plant in Switzerland in June. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Inches Back Toward Peak] Reference
Besides the foregoing there are three gas furnaces for heating the ingots. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
In Indonesia, Park helped supervise the loading of 3,000 tons of aluminum ingots. From Wordnik.com. [Where Pirates Still Sail] Reference
For decades the ingots would lie atop each other in the dark gloomy storage vault. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from "Change" where a 1963D Quarter is followed for a hundred years.] Reference
The "rolling" of these slabs and ingots into rails is a following operation still. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Sept. 28 The Tenyu, carrying aluminum ingots, is hijacked in the Strait of Malacca. From Wordnik.com. [Where Pirates Still Sail] Reference
She smiled as she strolled by the dime store steps, golden ingots rattling in her pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts] Reference
When the casks arrived and were examined, they were found to contain cochineal and ingots of silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831] Reference
In the bottom of the safe lay a pile of gold ingots representing a value of many thousands of dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
They knew that gold dust was gold, and saved the dust as well as the ingots; they would sacrifice nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
The steel is then run into molds, and the ingots so formed are hammered or rolled into rails or other forms. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Chia Lan's gifts consisted of two necklets, one of gold, the other of silver, and of two pair of gold ingots. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
On the successful rolling of steel ingots with their own initial heat by means of the soaking pit process. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference
But, in order to forge large ingots, it became necessary before all to increase the power of the steam hammer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
I was sent on board her, and expected to have returned with the boat laden with ingots, bars of gold and silver cobs. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Yüan Yang perceived that her words were believed by her; so smiling she once more dropped the ingots into the purse. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Jackets of large size are also manufactured; these are made from solid ingots, which, after being forged, are bored out. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
When cast into ingots from the liquid state it becomes at ordinary temperatures quite hard, brittle, and highly crystalline. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
The present practice in making metal sheets is to cast ingots or slabs and then reduce these by repeated rollings and reheating. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
In 1878 two fifteen gross tons Siemens open-hearth steel furnaces were built, with an annual capacity of 20,000 net tons of ingots. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
I mind well aboard ship, as I did once visit the hold, where we had store of ingots and bales of wealthy goods, I saw them sitting. From Wordnik.com. [Cromwell] Reference
The ingots are brought from the steel factory, and the forged pieces are taken away, by special trucks running on a system of rails. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
The modern capitalist avoids this by devolving the custody of his cash on some bank and holding its stock instead of a hoard of ingots. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The best weekly record reached 1,847 tons of ingots, the best monthly record of 20,304 tons, and the best daily output, 900 tons ingots. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
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