"ferrous metal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a metal that contains iron, such as steel. For example: "This bridge is made of ferrous metal, ensuring its strength and stability."
A.R.C., which is open 24 hours, buys hundreds of tons of ferrous metal a day.
They say it could speed the scanning of students by distinguishing between the ferrous metal of a gun and the nonferrous metals often used in jewelry.
The company said a steep decline in diamond sales and a fall in base and ferrous metal prices had eaten into the company's earnings.
General Electric employees soon standardized the processes and discovered that a melted ferrous metal, which acts as a catalyst, is essential for diamond growth at these conditions.
Magnets pluck out ferrous metal such as steel and iron.
Jiangxi Copper Co. Ltd. engages in smelting, protracting, and refining of non-ferrous metal mine, precious metal mine, non-metal mine, non ferrous metal and by-products.
PAHs: manufacture of industrial chemicals, petroleum products and non-metallic mineral products, and in iron and steel and non-ferrous metal industries.
The same year, China Non-Ferrous Metal Mining was blocked from buying a controlling stake in the rare earths miner Lynas.
Hoverboards have made headlines thanks to the Hendo board, which, like a maglev train, uses magnetic repulsion to float a couple of centimetres above a floor made of non-ferrous metal such as copper or aluminium.
Concurrently, while attending school held a full-time position with the New York Telephone Company in their testing division; from 19511965 he was employed with a firm in Brooklyn, NY, manufacturing non-ferrous metal alloys.
Rolex solved this by wrapping its movements in non-ferrous metal but their watch, the Milgauss, could only handle up to 1,000 Gauss.
