alpha iron

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   a magnetic allotrope of iron; stable below 906 degrees centigrade

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Questions about alpha iron

What does alpha iron mean?

alpha iron means "a magnetic allotrope of iron; stable below 906 degrees centigrade".

Is alpha iron a common word?

alpha iron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.