ingot
a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.
to make ingots of; shape into ingots.
Origin of ingot
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How to use ingot in a sentence
Essentially, this translated to a Spanish crown’s near-monopoly on the transatlantic trade route that covered not only coins and ingots of silver and gold but also a wealth of other valuable items like emeralds and pearls.
Spanish Galleon: The Definitive Warship of the Atlantic | Dattatreya Mandal | September 18, 2022 | Realm of HistoryOnce impurities are removed from the molten metal, workers mold the aluminum into ingots, pieces of pure metal ready for the market.
A North Carolina town struggles under the toxic shadow of the company that built it | Emily Cataneo/Undark | December 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThese specimens were claimed to be aboriginal, but whether the marks were cast or stamped in the ingot is not stated.
The Swastika | Thomas WilsonThe Lydians began coinage by stamping with a punch each ingot or nugget of gold or silver, or a mixture of them called “Electrum.”
The Swastika | Thomas WilsonSteel-ingot production fell in the spring of 1919 to lower figures than had been reached in more than two years.
Sometimes the silver takes the bar or ingot shape, and is then termed Nen.
At intervals the steel is tapped off from the furnace and run into ingot-moulds, the same as with the other process.
The Romance of War Inventions | Thomas W. Corbin
British Dictionary definitions for ingot
/ (ˈɪŋɡət) /
a piece of cast metal obtained from a mould in a form suitable for storage, transporting, and further use
(tr) to shape (metal) into ingots
Origin of ingot
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