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 in the role of Davros was Michael Wisher, who had previously appeared in several different roles on Doctor Who and had provided Dalek voices in the serials Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks and Death to the Daleks.

She was nominated for, but did not win, the Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast.

" In recognition of this, the cover illustration of a Full Cast Audio version of the work was revised to " show Rod with his correct ethnicity.

Fantasy Records released " Samba de Orpheus " as a single, trying to catch the building bossa nova wave, but it was destined to sink without a trace when radio DJs began flipping it over and playing the B-side, Guaraldi's " Cast Your Fate to the Wind ".

By the summer of 1996 Oasis's prominence was such that NME termed a number of Britpop bands ( including The Boo Radleys, Ocean Colour Scene and Cast ) as " Noelrock ", citing Gallagher's influence on their success.

The warrant was later denounced as " cynical " by the Israeli foreign ministry, while Livni's office said she was " proud of all her decisions in Operation Cast Lead ".

Cast as twenty-year-old Jack Dawson, a penniless Wisconsin man who wins two tickets for the third-class on the ill-fated RMS Titanic, DiCaprio initially refused to portray the character but was eventually encouraged to pursue the role by Cameron who strongly believed in his acting ability.

On May 20, 2010, Dish Network announced that it was dropping the Weather Channel at midnight ET that day in favor of its own similar weather information channel, The Weather Cast.

The Weather Cast was discontinued in anticipation of a Weatherscan-based service that would provide local weather information for Dish Network customers.

Cast as Captain Willard in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Keitel was involved with the first week of principal photography in the Philippines.

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.

Other sources claim the city was named for Felix I. Tarrant, President of National Cast Iron Pipe Company, which built the first major industrial plant in the area in 1912.

A portion of the Tom Hanks movie, Cast Away, was filmed in Canadian.

Also, the song " Cast No Shadow " was written as a homage to Richard Ashcroft, who in turn wrote " A Northern Soul " from the band's second album for Noel Gallagher.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1738 by virtue of the fact that " His Name hath been known for many years among the Learned by Several Curious disertations published in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris & in particular by a very Learned and usefull book wrote in French entitled ' The Art of Converting Forged Iron into Steel ' and ' the Art of Soft ' ning Cast Iron ' printed at Paris 1722 4to and lately by his ' Curious Memoires relating to the History of Insects ' at paris in 4to three Volumes of which work have been Laid before the Royal Society ".

Loesser was awarded a Grammy Award in 1961 for Best Original Cast Show Album for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

In September 1970, Vaughan was temporarily recruited into Cast of Thousands, a band that included future actor Stephen Tobolowsky.

Cast Away was also a success at the box office, earning over $ 429, 632, 142 worldwide in ticket receipts.

Day-Lewis was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Satellite Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role, as well as sharing nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast and the Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture with the rest of the cast members.

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.

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

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.

Cast iron edge rails were used by Thomas Dadford junior when building the Beaufort and Blaenavon lines to the Monmouthshire canal in 1793.

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.