ferrous
IPA: fˈɛrʌs
adjective
- Of or containing iron.
- (chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 2.
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Examples of "ferrous" in Sentences
- Ferrous iron particles are applied to the panel.
- One is a hard type of iron ore known as ferrous oxide.
- This is also dealt with the history of ferrous metallurgy.
- The ferrous form is soluble, whereas the ferric form is not.
- What are the transition curves of different ferrous materials
- The history of ferrous metallurgy began far back in prehistory.
- His primary use of this power is the manipulation of ferrous metals.
- After being removed from the furnace, the ferrous metal is quenched.
- In archaeology, the Iron Age refers to the advent of ferrous metallurgy.
- The simple copper sulfides are then separated from the ferrous iron liquid.
- Ferrous gluconate is effectively used in the treatment of hypochromic anemia.
- Those derived from the lower oxide, known as ferrous salts, are generally pale and greenish.
- O4and the common chemical name ferrous-ferric oxide, which indicates the mineral comprises both a ferrous component, FeO (wüstite), and a ferric component, Fe
- Nitrates are best detected and determined by their yielding nitric oxide when treated with sulphuric acid and a suitable reducing agent, such as ferrous sulphate, mercury, or copper.
- Mineral products such as ferrous ores, coal (US$18,6 million), products of machine building industry (US$6,76 million), chemical products and plastics (US$3,43 million), foods and beverages
- We are lowering our 2010 EPS outlook to $1.25 from $1.35 to account for more subdued spread expectations in carbon steel products, partially offset by an improved profit outlook for Metals Recycling given rising near-term ferrous scrap demand/pricing.
- They are lowering our 2010 EPS outlook to $1.25 from $1.35 to account for more subdued spread expectations in carbon steel products, partially offset by an improved profit outlook for Metals Recycling given rising near-term ferrous scrap demand/pricing.
- Hydrochloric acid, for example, with chalybite (ferrous carbonate) will give a solution of _ferrous_ chloride; with hæmatite (ferric oxide) it will yield _ferric_ chloride; and with magnetite (ferrous and ferric oxides) a mixture of ferrous and ferric chlorides.
- It is important to remember that multivitamins with iron contain a smaller quantity of elemental iron and are therefore, less radiopaque than preparations such as ferrous sulfate and that partially dissolved tablets will not be as radiopaque as undissolved tablets.
- When the ore also carries substances which have a reducing effect (such as ferrous compounds), such assays will give, not the total dioxide (MnO_ {2}), but less, by the amount required to oxidise these impurities; and this is exactly what is required in valuing such an ore for commercial purposes.
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