malleable iron

malleable iron
noun also malleable cast iron
: cast iron containing usually from 2 to 3 percent carbon and 1.5 to 0.8 percent silicon and produced by annealing white cast iron of this composition in order to convert hard brittle cementite to graphite in nodular form so that the material will have greater ductility than white iron or ordinary gray iron containing graphite in flake form

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2. See wrought iron.
[1815-25]

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malleable iron,
1. = malleable cast iron. (Cf. ↑malleable cast iron)
2. = wrought iron. (Cf. ↑wrought iron)

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