spiegel iron

1. 1.

   pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel

   Synonymsspiegeleisenspiegel

   Broaderpig iron

Questions about spiegel iron

What does spiegel iron mean?

spiegel iron means "pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel".

What is another word for spiegel iron?

Close synonyms include spiegeleisen, spiegel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spiegel iron a common word?

spiegel 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.