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Malleable cannot be broken like a cast fitting can be and normally malleable fittings / pipe do not have a seam +++ Its full name is Malleable CAST Iron - it is cast as "ordinary" cast-iron but is a lot less brittle. It is an important material combining some of the properties of cast-iron with those of mild-steel.
Cast iron insert is used in a motorcycle crankcase due to its durability. This makes is impossible for thread stripping of the cylinder head.Ê
Yes Le Creuset makes cast iron dutch oven ,a good dutch or french oven should be made of cast iron for its durability. Cast iron is what is called 'thermal inertia'- slow to heat up and slow to cool down.This characteristic is good for slow cooking.
I doubt any modern car maker makes a cast iron wheel. Wheels have been stamped steel for years.
It's conductivity makes it perfect for cooking [see Cast Iron Pots]. The thing about iron is that it is overly heavy, and its conductivity also makes it get equally hot all over so a handle would be difficult to make in such a way it wouldn't burn you. Oh, and it rusts easily. You have to oil those cast iron pots to avoid this.
Iron, cast iron is just iron
steel, pig iron and stainless steel and also cast iron
White Cast Iron: White cast iron is unique in that it is the only member of the cast iron family in which carbon is present only as carbide. Due to the absence of graphite, it has a light appearance. The presence of different carbides, depending on the alloy content, makes white cast irons extremely hard and abrasion resistant but very brittle. An improved form of white cast iron is the chilled cast iron.
Cast iron is fabricated in blast furnaces where iron ore is reduced by coke to cast iron, according to Wikipedia.
no cast iron is more superior than foregn iron
Grey cast ironWhite cast ironMalleable cast ironDuctile cast iron