soft iron

British  

noun

1. 1. iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss

   2. ( as modifier )

      a soft-iron core

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soft iron

Hard became soft, iron became glass, out turned to in; categories existed only to be subverted.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2010

Hefty Andy Langhammer, head of Chrysler's Amplex Division, announced that his workmen were making tool steel from soft iron rust.

From Time Magazine Archive

A cylindrical or spoolÐshaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Figure 1 You will see that the current passes first through two small coils of wire, and each coil has at its center a piece of soft iron called the core.

From Electricity for the 4-H Scientist Idaho Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin 396, June, 1962 by Eric B. Wilson

If, instead of using a soft iron bar in the above experiment, we had substituted one of hard iron, or steel, we should have found two remarkable differences in the results.

From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone

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