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iron - use in sentences
Converse of object
- corrugate: He awoke behind his blanket of corrugated iron to the sound of German voices.
- solder: Common problems and cures listed - many of which you can fix yourself with only the remote control handset or a soldering iron.
- absorb: Drinking a glass of vitamin C-rich orange juice with a meal also helps you absorb iron from your food.
- galvanize: Cleaning Painted galvanized iron can be stripped with standard chemical stripper.
Adjective modifier
- wrought: Ensure wrought iron or steel gates can not easily be climbed.
- ductile: By 1970 the material had become commercially available and today well over half of all iron castings produced worldwide are made in ductile iron.
- molten: Steel Most of the molten iron from a Blast Furnace is used to make one of a number of types of steel.
- red-hot: He is also a shade tree blacksmith who can often be seen beating red-hot iron into shape in his driveway.
Modifies a noun
- ore: The early miners found plenty of iron ore at or near to the surface of the ground.
- deficiency: Little evidence of iron deficiency anemia was found from total iron binding capacity.
- railing: They are situated behind high black iron railings mounted on newly built brick walls.
- oxide: Other land can contain magnetic iron oxides, which are purely natural.
- gate: Take the next right turning through a large iron gate onto a cobbled road.
- anemia: Little evidence of iron deficiency anemia was found from total iron binding capacity.
Noun used with modifier
- cast: I have fond memories of the cast iron range in the front room there.
- non-haem: Absorption of non-haem iron is affected by various factors in food.
- haem: But until now the way in which haem iron was taken up in the gut had been unknown.
- pig: Abernant was chosen as the site for a forge and mills where the pig iron produced at Abernant and Llwydcoed could be refined.
Particle object: out_obj
- wrinkle: We visited in person to check it was in order and to iron out any wrinkles -- there are always a few.
Preposition: in
- hemoglobin: It is essential to the development of heme, the protein-containing iron in hemoglobin needed to form red blood cells.
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