Definition of Sand cast

1. Verb. Pour molten metal into a mold of sand. "Did he sand cast his major works over a short period of time?"

Generic synonyms: Cast, Mold, Mould

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sand Cast

sand-blind
sand-crack
sand-grouse
sand-martin
sand art
sand badger
sand bar
sand bars
sand bath
sand berry
sand blackberry
sand bodies
sand boil
sand box
sand boxes
sand cast (current term)
sand cat
sand cats
sand cherry
sand crab
sand crack
sand cricket
sand dab
sand devil's claw
sand dollar
sand dollars
sand down
sand dropseed
sand dune
sand dunes

Literary usage of Sand cast

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

1. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"The Materials Used in sand cast Rolls are charcoal iron and roll scrap. The mixtures are melted in coal fired reverberatory furnaces. ..."

2. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"The Materials Used in sand cast Rolls are charcoal iron and roll scrap. The mixtures are melted in coal fired reverberatory furnaces. ..."

3. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and by Talbot Baines Reed (1887)
"... Speculum were sand-cast, and accounts for the varieties observable in the shapes of various letters, by explaining that several models would probably be ..."

4. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and by Talbot Baines Reed (1887)
"... Speculum were sand-cast, and accounts for the varieties observable in the shapes of various letters, by explaining that several models would probably be ..."

5. The Principles of Iron Founding by Richard Moldenke (1917)
"when contrasted with each other, are as follows: Sand-cast pig iron is covered with ... Further, in the case of sand-cast pig iron the slag problem is more ..."

6. The Founder's Manual by David Wells Payne (1917)
"Hot blast, anthracite and coke, sand cast iron ... Hot blast, coke, sand cast foundry, from local brown and red hematites. Sil. 2.0-4.5% Phos. abt. ..."

7. Iron and Steel: (a Pocket Encyclopedia) Including Allied Industries and Sciences by Hugh Philip Tiemann (1910)
"This method produces what is known as sand cast pig. To avoid the sand which always adheres, the iron is frequently cast in metal molds or chills, ..."

8. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"The Materials Used in sand cast Rolls are charcoal iron and roll scrap. The mixtures are melted in coal fired reverberatory furnaces. ..."

9. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"The Materials Used in sand cast Rolls are charcoal iron and roll scrap. The mixtures are melted in coal fired reverberatory furnaces. ..."

10. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and by Talbot Baines Reed (1887)
"... Speculum were sand-cast, and accounts for the varieties observable in the shapes of various letters, by explaining that several models would probably be ..."

11. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and by Talbot Baines Reed (1887)
"... Speculum were sand-cast, and accounts for the varieties observable in the shapes of various letters, by explaining that several models would probably be ..."

12. The Principles of Iron Founding by Richard Moldenke (1917)
"when contrasted with each other, are as follows: Sand-cast pig iron is covered with ... Further, in the case of sand-cast pig iron the slag problem is more ..."

13. The Founder's Manual by David Wells Payne (1917)
"Hot blast, anthracite and coke, sand cast iron ... Hot blast, coke, sand cast foundry, from local brown and red hematites. Sil. 2.0-4.5% Phos. abt. ..."

14. Iron and Steel: (a Pocket Encyclopedia) Including Allied Industries and Sciences by Hugh Philip Tiemann (1910)
"This method produces what is known as sand cast pig. To avoid the sand which always adheres, the iron is frequently cast in metal molds or chills, ..."

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