ingot

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When silicon is used there is a tendency to unsoundness about the exterior of the ingot, which is surrounded by a honeycomb-like cellular casing of greater or less depth; while with manganese the vesicular cavities are more or less dispersed through the whole substance, or concentrated toward the interior of the ingot.

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  1. noun A mass of metal, such as a bar or block, that is cast in a standard shape for convenient storage or shipment.
  2. noun A casting mold for metal.

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  • A short distance away was a second ingot, apparently identical to the first, but composed of antihydrogen. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • In the second ingot, antiprotons became antineutrons. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • Because the ingot is more than 300 years old, and is made from a precious metal, it qualifies as treasure. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • To make silicon useful you take the wafer sliced form the ingot, ant it has to be doped (ie add impurities) amongst many other steps. —  doggdot.us
  • The massive carbides and tungstides present in the ingot are broken down and uniformly distributed throughout the billet To accomplish this the reduction in area must be sufficient and the hammer blows should be heavy, so as to carry the compression into the center of the billet; otherwise, undesirable characteristics such as coarse structure and carbide envelopes will exist and cause the steel treater much trouble. —  The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
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  1. Middle English, mold for casting metal : probably in-, in; see in-2 + Old English goten, past participle of geotan, to pour, or perhaps from Old French lingot, metal ingot (reinterpreted as l'ingot : le, the + *ingot, ingot).

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  1. from Middle English ingot, a mold for molten metal, orig. that which is poured in (= Middle High German īnguz, German einguss, a pouring in, an ingot), from Anglo-Saxon *ingoten, past participle of *ingeótan (not found) (= Dutch ingieten = German eingiessen = Danish indgyde = Swedish ingjuta), pour in, from in, in, + geótan (= Dutch gieten = German giessen = Icelandic gjōta = Danish gyde = Swedish gjuta = Gothic (Moesogothic) giutan), pour: see gush, and cf. gut, from the same Anglo-Saxon verb geótan. The F. lingot, ingot, orig. l'ingot, i. e. le (def. art.) ingot, is from English
 

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