Cast Iron is defined as an iron – carbon alloy with more than 2. 00 % but less than 6. 67 % carbon.

Cast irons, including ductile iron are also part of the iron-carbon system.

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* Cast iron is first used in the Chinese Kingdom of Wu with the innovation of the blast furnace, and soon becomes widespread for agricultural tools and weapons during the Warring States.

Cast iron and pig iron could be converted into wrought iron and steel using a fining process.

* 3rd century – Cast iron widely used in Han Dynasty China

Cast iron, while known in the 14th century, was not sufficiently common to be much used for the manufacture of shot, although small ones were made about that time.

Cast iron is likely to rust in a dishwasher.

Cast iron fishbelly edge rail manufactured by Outram at the Butterley Company ironworks for the Cromford and High Peak Railway ( 1831 ).

Cast iron is iron or a ferrous alloy which has been heated until it liquefies, and is then poured into a mould to solidify.

Cast iron tends to be brittle, except for malleable cast irons.

Cast iron was used in ancient China for warfare, agriculture, and architecture.

Cast iron is made by re-melting pig iron, often along with substantial quantities of scrap iron, scrap steel, lime stone, carbon ( coke ) and taking various steps to remove undesirable contaminants.

Cast iron weights of were attached to the Mark VII at the end of 1940 to increase sinking velocity to.

Cast iron was used extensively, for example the roofs of the building consist are of cast iron girders covered by sheets of iron, cast iron beams were also used as joists to support the floors and extensively in the internal structures of both the clock tower and Victoria tower.

Cast iron is brittle and so the rails tended to break easily.

They were probably involved in the palatalization process of the Latin clusters-ll -, pl -, cl-(- ll-> Cast.

Pitt had continued his naval descents during 1758, but the first had enjoyed only limited success and the second ended with near disaster at the Battle of St Cast and no further Descents were planned.

The Director / Choreographers for that production were Jay Norman and Lee Theodore, veterans of the Original Broadway Cast.

Although it was initially reported that there were 10 members of the band, along with Plant the band consists of former Strange Sensation members, Cast guitarist Liam " Skin " Tyson, Justin Adams, Billy Fuller and John Baggot along with Dave Smith, Juldeh Camara and Patty Griffin.

Heather Williams, Haley Williams and Bailee Reed were selected as All Star Cast and all 8 members of the chorus were presented with an Honorable Mention All Star Cast Award.

Cast, In Order of Disappearance and So Much Blood were both adapted as serials for BBC Radio 2 with Francis Matthews in the lead role in the 1980s.

She and the cast members were nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast.

Formed in 1968, Cast of Thousands were one of five Dallas bands selected to record two songs for a compilation album, A New Hi.

Cast metal sorts were composited into words and lines of text and tightly bound together to make up a page image called a forme, with all letter faces exactly the same height to form an even surface of type.

Parts 2 and 3 were titled, respectively, The Cast Iron Rat and The Stainless Steel Rat's Return.

The cast recorded an album, Annie Get Your Gun-1986 London Cast and Quatro's songs " I Got Lost in His Arms "/" You Can't Get a Man with a Gun " were released as a single.

Cast iron linings were traditionally used in the London Underground tunnels, while steel liners were sometimes used elsewhere.

The name Cast came from an area in Liverpool where the band are from, near to the docks, where in the 1990s were lots of shipping containers stored with the name ' Cast ' on them.

Having switched from bass to rhythm guitar whilst residing at Brucklay House-a near derelict squat in Mossley Hill, where the seeds of legendary dance label 3 Beat Records were sown, Power began jamming with friends and with an ever changing line up began to form Cast.

John Power released a statement to deny any rifts in the band and that this was " just the beginning of a new musical chapter ", but would later admit that there were lots of internal differences in the band by the end and admitted " When Cast split, it was the same as when The La's fell apart.

Cast members ( rumored to be Kelley and Doohan ) were playing a practical joke on Shatner and deliberately aiming the prop Tribbles at his head, seeing if he could complete the scene without breaking character.

Cast iron may be used for the heating vessel of domestic water heaters.

Cast iron and ductile iron pipe was long a lower-cost alternative to copper, before the advent of durable plastic materials but special non-conductive fittings must be used where transitions are to be made to other metallic pipes, except for terminal fittings, in order to avoid corrosion owing to electrochemical reactions between dissimilar metals ( see galvanic cell ).

* Lone Star Toys, the name used by British company Die Cast Machine Tools Ltd ( DCMT ) for its toy products

Cast shadows are often illuminated while a uniformity of line is used throughout, paying equal attention to every element depicted.

Tavor CTAR-21 rifles saw combat service in Operation Cast Lead, used by Givati Brigade and Golani Brigade, and the soldiers reported the Tavor rifles functioned flawlessly.

NYPD-FDNY Charity Sporting Games, as well as NY-based Daytime TV " Soap Opera " Cast Baseball Games are often held there-( The studios used for CBS TV's " As The World Turns " is nearby ).

Cast aluminum cylinder heads were used featuring 4 valves per cylinder.

Body casts, which cover the trunk of the body, and in some cases the neck up to or including the head ( see Minerva Cast, below ) or one or more limbs, are rarely used today, and are most commonly used in the cases of small children, who cannot be trusted to comply with a brace, or in cases of radical surgery to repair an injury or other defect.

Cast iron was used for the rotors themselves, and their eccentric shafts were of expensive chrome-molybdenum steel.

** Cast nodular iron used in all Olds diesel crankshafts.

Recently, the album's title track has been used as the introductory music for the Harvard Business Review's HBR Idea Cast

The " Cast Iron Power Glide " was used until 1963, when it was revamped as " Aluminum Power Glide " where its case and several of its other parts were made of aluminum.

Cast iron surface plates are now frequently used on production floors as a tool for lapping granite surface plates to achieve certain grades of accuracy.

However, it has been recorded three times, in 1928 by the original chorus used in the first London production of the show, in 1988 by the Ambrosian Chorus with John McGlinn conducting, who used it in his landmark 1988 EMI recording of the complete score of Show Boat, and in 1993 for the Studio Cast recording of 1946 revival version.