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wrought iron

Fairly pure iron containing some beads of slag, widely used for construction work before the days of cheap steel. It is strong, tough, and easy to machine. It is made in a puddling furnace, invented by Henry Colt in England in 1784. Pig iron is remelted and heated strongly in air with iron ore, burning out the carbon in the metal, leaving relatively pure iron and a slag containing impurities. The resulting pasty metal is then hammered to remove as much of the remaining slag as possible. It is still used in fences and gratings.
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He had owned or rented a lot of grazing land, where cattle were fattened up before slaughter locally; he had been a mercer, a merchant who dealt in fabrics, especially silk and other costly materials, and also in spices; and he had been involved in the iron trade, transporting bar iron from forges to blacksmiths.
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