soft iron

noun

1. 1. iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
   2. ( as modifier )

      a soft-iron core

Example Sentences

By the litter walk eight guards armed with “foray guns,” also relics of a more barbaric past but not empty ones, being loaded with pellets of soft iron.

From Literature

Most notably, he had hammered out a model, about 8 inches long and made of soft iron, of the original tool.

From Washington Times

One of the principal results was the discovery that the effect of longitudinal pull is to increase the inductive magnetisation of soft iron, and of transverse thrust to diminish it, so long as the magnetising field does not exceed a certain value.

From Project Gutenberg

At one end of the lever A is a soft-iron armature block, a, over the core M' of the helix M, and there is a limiting screw, c, passing through this armature block a, and at the other end of the lever A is a soft iron armature block, b, with the end tapering or wedge shaped, and the same comes close to and in line with the lateral projection e on the core N2.

From Project Gutenberg

This principle of operation may be illustrated by a simple experiment: Place end to end, and preferably in actual contact, a permanently magnetized steel bar and a strip or bar of soft iron.

From Project Gutenberg