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channel iron

noun

  1. a rolled steel or iron shape having a U -shaped cross section, with two narrower sides at right angles to a broader one.


channel iron

noun

  1. a rolled-steel bar with a U-shaped cross section Sometimes shortened tochannel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of channel iron1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Using some channel iron found behind the machine shop, we built what looked like a miniature oil derrick and placed it over the scale as a brace for a tube that held the rocket.

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Combination steel and wood reaches, the sides being of channel iron and the center of wood, are favored by some operators.

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"The German ironmasters," writes Prof. Milloud, "sell their girders and channel iron for 130 marks per ton in Germany, for 120 to 125 in Switzerland; in England, South America and the East for 103 to 110 marks; in Italy they throw it away at 75 marks and make a loss of from 10 to 20 marks per ton, for the cost price may be reckoned at 85 to 95 marks per ton."

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The apparatus is mounted on a stand at a convenient height for handling the bottles; and in front is another stand with channel iron rails to take the waggon in which the bottles or jars to be sterilised are packed.

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Two pieces of channel iron are attached to these legs and the structural framework of the calorimeter chamber rests upon these irons.

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