pig iron

English

Etymology

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Noun

pig iron (uncountable)

1. A type of crude iron shaped like a block, commonly used as an industrial raw material.

Translations

type of crude iron

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生鐵／生铁 (zh) (shēngtiě), 生铁 (zh) (shēngtiě)

• Esperanto: krudfero
• Finnish: takkirauta (fi)
• French: fonte brute f
• German: Roheisen (de) n
• Greek: αργός σίδηρος m (argós sídiros)
• Hindi: कच्चा लोहा m (kaccā lohā)
• Indonesian: besi gubal
• Irish: muciarann m
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• Japanese: 銑鉄 (ja) (せんてつ, sentetsu)
• Korean: 선철 (seoncheol)
• Malay: besi jongkong
• Polish: surówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ferro gusa (pt) m
• Russian: переде́льный чугу́н m (peredélʹnyj čugún)
• Spanish: arrabio (es) m
• Swedish: tackjärn (sv) n
• Tagalog: ilik-bakal
• Welsh: haearn crai m, haearn hwch m

See also

• cast iron