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Definition of Iron-gray

1. Noun. The color of freshly broken cast iron.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Iron-gray

Literary usage of Iron-gray

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Laboratory Manual of Dyeing and Textile Chemistry by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1909)
"Enter at a low temperature and gradually raise to the boil. Wash and soap in the manner before described. Experiment 128. Iron Gray on Cotton. ..."

2. Laboratory Manual of Dyeing and Textile Chemistry by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1909)
"Enter at a low temperature and gradually raise to the boil. Wash and soap in the manner before described. Experiment 128. Iron Gray on Cotton. ..."

3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"Color, iron- gray to black; streak, iron-gray to black; opaque; luster, metallic; tenacity, malleable; cleavage, octahedral. It is strongly attracted by ..."

4. Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and Other Metals: Containing by Thomas Tredgold, Eaton Hodgkinson (1861)
"In very tough iron the colour of the fracture is uniform dark iron gray, the texture fibrous, with an abundance of metallic lustre. ..."

5. Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology: Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1886)
"Color iron gray, and lustre bright metallic, but varying to red and ... Color iron gray to grayish black, and lustre metallic; never bright red. ..."

6. The Copper Mines of the World by Walter Harvey Weed (1907)
"The pure mineral is compact, has metallic luster, and is a steel or iron-gray color when in thin scales, but when massive it has a jet black glassy or ..."

7. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"Color, iron- gray to black; streak, iron-gray to black; opaque; luster, metallic; tenacity, malleable; cleavage, octahedral. It is strongly attracted by ..."

8. Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and Other Metals: Containing by Thomas Tredgold, Eaton Hodgkinson (1861)
"In very tough iron the colour of the fracture is uniform dark iron gray, the texture fibrous, with an abundance of metallic lustre. ..."

9. Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology: Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1886)
"Color iron gray, and lustre bright metallic, but varying to red and ... Color iron gray to grayish black, and lustre metallic; never bright red. ..."

10. The Copper Mines of the World by Walter Harvey Weed (1907)
"The pure mineral is compact, has metallic luster, and is a steel or iron-gray color when in thin scales, but when massive it has a jet black glassy or ..."

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