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Malleable

Malleable

Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonised cast iron. See iron. Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

Origin: f. Malleable, fr. LL. Malleare to hammer. See malleate.


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by robertkernodle
Mon May 21, 2007 6:26 pm
 
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by narrowstaircase
Sun May 20, 2007 10:53 pm
 
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by narrowstaircase
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Mon May 14, 2007 7:59 pm
 
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by Khaiy
Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:08 pm
 
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