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ingot

Mass of metal cast into a size and shape such as a bar, plate, or sheet convenient to store, transport, and work into a semifinished or finished product. The term also refers to a mold in which metal is so cast. Steel ingots range in size from small rectangular blocks weighing a few pounds (or kilograms) to huge, tapered, octagonal masses weighing more than 500 tons (450 metric tons).


ingot
a piece of cast metal obtained from a mould in a form suitable for storage, transporting, and further use

ingot [′iŋ·gət]
(metallurgy)
A solid metal casting suitable for remelting or working.
A bar of gold or silver.


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A keen observer of English customs relates that, being in one of the rooms of the Bank one day, he had the curiosity to examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds.
By and by they came to the place where steel rails were made; and Jurgis heard a toot behind him, and jumped out of the way of a car with a white-hot ingot upon it, the size of a man's body.
Tarzan dropped his eyes to the ingot he had brought away with him.
 
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