Sentence examples for size of ingots from inspiring English sources

As the size of ingots increased in the late 19th century, large hammer forges were developed that simulated the early blacksmiths' hammering action.

In 1861 use of the Kelly converter (for converting iron to steel) spurred the growth of Johnstown's steel industry, which developed the nation's first blooming mill (used to reduce the size of steel ingots) and produced the first American-made steel rails.

An ingot the size of a bar of chocolate will make over 5000 small (8cmx8cm) leaves.

Also in the unadulterated category are the 27 United States Treasury gold ingots — each the size of an egg carton, each weighing around 27 pounds — protectively displayed in a vitrine with extra-thick Plexiglas.

Beneath the serried urns and bottles on the shelves were great carboys of acid — sulfuric, nitric, aqua regia; globular china bottles of mercury (it was incredibly dense, and seven pounds of it would fit into a bottle the size of a fist); and slabs and ingots of the commoner metals.

Here, pieces of the scrapped metal are first melted down in foundries into pure copper ingots, typically the size of a loaf of bread.

It takes a lot of ingots hidden in suitcases to smuggle in that much.

"Visions of ingots danced before their eyes," and warnings in Parliament were drowned out.

Competitive hi-tech manufacturing of ingots, wafers and cells will continue at Frederick.

Tin is normally sold in the form of ingots, or pigs, which are cast from refined tin.

The liquid metal was poured from ladles into large cast-iron ingot molds with an average size of 700 millimetres in square section and 1.5 to 2 metres in length.