ingot

(noun)

A block of steel, gold, or other metal oblong in shape and used for currency.

Related Terms

Examples of ingot in the following topics:

  • Introduction to the Hidden History Products

    • As the electrical process unfolds, it reduces the aluminium oxide by half before what's left is shaped into ingots and trucked to a different part of Sweden (or Germany).
    • The ingots are then heated in ovens and pressed into thin sheets.

  • Bronze Age Advancements in Metallurgy

    • "Mild bronze," about six percent tin, was hammered from ingots to make sheets.
    • The culture is distinguished by its characteristic metal objects including ingot torques, flat axes, flat triangular daggers, bracelets with spiral-ends, disk- and paddle-headed pins and curl rings which are distributed over a wide area of Central Europe and beyond.

  • Administrative Reform in the Mongol Empire

  • Trade and Currency under the Yuan

    • His authority established united measure based on sukhe or silver ingot; however, the Mongols allowed their foreign subjects to mint coins in the denominations and weight they traditionally used.

  • The Economy under the Ming Dynasty

    • Minor coins were minted in base metals, but trade mostly occurred using silver ingots.

  • Economic Activities

    • Steel that has been made into a pan may provides more utility that a sheet of steel or an iron ingot.