ferrous

About 1.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or containing iron.

   ferrous metals

2. adjective Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of +2.
3. adjective Of an element: iron, or in certain ways similar to iron. (Said mainly of iron group elements, in any sense of that term.)

   ferrous metals

Similar words

ferric iron steel smelting silicate smelter magnesium fumarate base black

Often followed by

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