Ingots
[ɪŋɡəts]
Examples
- About two hundred ingots are run through per hour on each pair of rollers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These ingots are passed between steel rollers till they form long ribbons of such thinness that a square inch will weigh six and one-half grains. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For small transactions the various provinces were using perforated zinc and brass cash, but for larger there was nothing but stamped ingots of silver. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To begin with, metals were handed about in ingots and weighed at each transaction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The production of Bessemer steel in the United States for 1897 was for ingots and castings 5,475,315 tons, and for railroad rails 1,644,520 tons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The gold is cast into ingots weighing about two ounces each, and measuring about three-quarters of an inch broad. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Her smiths take silver ingots and work them up into all manner of graceful and beautiful forms. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The rolling machines through which the ingots are passed are adjustable, the space between the rollers being governed by the operator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Norton