ingot
IPA: ˈɪŋgʌt
noun
- A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
verb
- (transitive) To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.
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Examples of "ingot" in Sentences
- The Ottawa Citizen reports Canada joins quest to set new kilo: Formula to replace inexact old ingot.
- It may take several years before the “inexact old ingot” is replaced by a measure science finds acceptable.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- "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
- 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.
- 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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