Meaning of puddled bar | Babel Free

Definitions

An incompletely refined iron produced by the puddling of pig iron and then formation into a bar, which can then subsequently be further refined into iron bars.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“In the manufacture⟳ of bar iron⟳, either puddled bar or scrap iron⟳ may be used. The puddled bar is the product of pig iron⟳.”

“Puddled bar is the raw material of the man who makes bar iron⟳.”

“The same rolls could be used whether bar iron⟳, scrap iron⟳, or puddled bars were used, and even if the duty on scrap were raised to a prohibitory point⟳ , the domestic producers of pig iron⟳ could not have⟳ profited greatly, since much of the scrap iron⟳ was purchased in the country, and since the producers of puddled bars had not the facilities to produce⟳ a large enough output at the price at which bars could then be imported.”

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