Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mass of metal, such as a bar or block, that is cast in a standard shape for convenient storage or shipment.
- noun A casting mold for metal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mold into which to pour metals; an ingot-mold.
- noun A mass of metal cast in a mold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete That in which metal is cast; a mold.
- noun A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
- noun a box or mold in which ingots are cast.
- noun See Decarbonized steel, under
Decarbonize .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A solid
block of more or less puremetal , often but not necessarilybricklike in shape andtrapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately aftersmelting from rawore oralloying from constituents.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What we are doing, Steve is we are working off our forecast which we review on a monthly basis and based on that forecast, we are stocking what is called ingot which is the product add of our melting operating or billet which is the product that goes in our hardworking operations.
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Silicon wafers are manufactured by cooling molten silicon in a crucible in a controlled manner to form an ingot, which is then cut into smaller blocks and sliced into wafers.
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All products are then distilled and recycled into products such as ingot used for foundry application, glass wool used to insulate homes, distilled mercury used in the manufacture of dental amalgam, and phosphor powder used for the manufacture of fertiliser products.
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It may take several years before the “inexact old ingot” is replaced by a measure science finds acceptable.
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The Ottawa Citizen reports Canada joins quest to set new kilo: Formula to replace inexact old ingot.
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"Precious metal" is defined in subsection 123 (1) of the ETA to mean a bar, ingot, coin, or wafer that is composed of gold, silver, platinum that is refined to a purity level of at least: (a) 99.5% in the case of gold, and platinum, and
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How many of us would toss a dime to a beggar if we knew he had an ingot or two stashed under his sleeping dog?
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Samsung LED previously had a roster of suppliers for key components, both at home and abroad, the spokesman said, adding that about five companies supply around 90% of the global supply of sapphire ingot.
Samsung LED, Sumitomo Chemical Plan Wafer JV Jung-Ah Lee 2011
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The statement said the plant uses lead ingot and sulfuric acid as raw materials, while "lead smoke and dust caused during the production were emitted after being treated by the filter."
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Reuters Above, a machine engraves information on an ingot of 99.99% pure gold at the Krastsvetmet nonferrous metals plant in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
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