Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Latin name for iron, from which the chemical symbol for the metal, Fe, is derived: used by German pharmaceutical chemists, in price-lists, etc., and in the names for iron compounds, as ferrum citricum, citrate of iron.
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Examples
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Fe for short, after the Latin word "ferrum," meaning iron -- it is one of those substances which cannot be separated into anything else but itself.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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"We also found ferrum sillicate that can not be produced anywhere, except in space".
Fox News Carries Story Claiming Aliens Saved Earth - NASA Watch 2009
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Experiments have shown that the vitamin content of vegetables grown from space seeds is 281.5 per cent of that of ordinary vegetables; and microelements of ferrum, zinc and carotene are also higher than normal.
First ‘Seed Satellite’ Ready to Blast Off in September | Impact Lab 2006
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So beauty commands even kings themselves; nay whole armies and kingdoms are captivated together with their kings: [4834] Forma vincit armatos, ferrum pulchritudo captivat; vincentur specie, qui non vincentur proelio.
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Stromatum l. post captam Trojam cum impetu ferretur, ad occidendam Helenam, stupore adeo pulchritudinis correptus ut ferrum excideret, &c.
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Si occidere placet, ferrum meum vides, si verberibus contenta es, curro nudus ad poenam.
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Tumorem splenis incurabilem sola cappari curavit, cibo tali aegritudine aptissimo: Soloque usu aquae, in qua faber ferrarius saepe candens ferrum extinxerat, &c. 4390.
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Cuius cruoris contactu fruges non germinant, acescunt musta, moriuntur herbae, amittunt arbores fetus, ferrum rubigo corripit, nigrescunt aera.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exors ipsa secandi.
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Si illam saltem intuearis, statuis immobiliorem te faciet: si conspexeris eam, non relinquetur facultas oculos ab ea amovendi; abducet te alligatum quocunque voluerit, ut ferrum ad se trahere ferunt adamantem.
chairmank commented on the word ferrum
I prefer this word over "iron".
August 26, 2008