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Iron

Elements · Colors & materials

A common metal that rusts. Weapons, blood, and later planetary correspondences have used it; those uses are not one doctrine.

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Alchemy

  • Puddling furnace is used in Iron.

    Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the reverberatory hearth for puddling pig iron into wrought iron among ironworks furnaces. A named puddling-furnace in that iron craft, not a finery and not a bare reverberatory-furnace dump alone.

    from Edward H. Knight · American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876

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European folklore

  • Turret clock is historically related to Iron.

    Reid’s public-clock chapters seat the turret clock among large weight-driven movements built to drive dials in a turret or cupola, iron frames and arbors among that heavy shop work. A named turret-clock in that craft, not a tower-clock as the public whole alone and not a domestic lantern clock.

    from Thomas Reid · Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, 1826

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  • Patten is historically related to Iron.

    Planché’s Cyclopaedia seats the patten among raised wooden or iron-ring overshoes that lift the foot above mud and wet. A named patten in that costume speech, not a clog alone, not a sabot, and not a chopine fashion platform.

    from James Robinson Planché · A Cyclopaedia of Costume, 1876–1879

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  • Printers chase is historically related to Iron.

    Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Chase as an Iron Frame that locks pages and furniture on the Correcting-Stone — sides and crosses of iron filed square and flat. A named Chase in that iron-frame speech, not a galley tray, not a hunting chase, and not a bare picture frame.

    from Joseph Moxon · Mechanick Exercises (Printing), 1683–1684

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  • Chest lock is historically related to Iron.

    Price’s Treatise seats iron chest locks among the stronger link-plate locks for chests and coffers, and lists chest and link-cupboard locks in the comparative price tables. A named chest-lock in that locksmith-furniture speech, not a cabinet-lock alone, not a padlock, and not a bare hasp.

    from George Price · Treatise on Locks and Keys, 1856

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  • Flush bolt is historically related to Iron.

    Price’s Treatise seats the common flush-bolt or dog-lock among ironworks bolts that stay flush with the selvage when unlocked, and indexes flush-bolt locks (Hobbs, Nettlefold, Perry). A named flush-bolt in that locksmith-bolt speech, not a deadbolt, not a barrel-bolt, and not a cremone or slide-bolt dump.

    from George Price · Treatise on Locks and Keys, 1856

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  • Hasp is historically related to Iron.

    Price’s Treatise seats padlocks among fastenings used wherever hasps and staples or chains are affixed to the article or depository to be secured. A named hasp in that locksmith-fastening speech, not a door-chain, not a keyhole-plate, and not a padlock body alone.

    from George Price · Treatise on Locks and Keys, 1856

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  • Lever lock is historically related to Iron.

    Price’s Treatise seats lever locks among the priced four-lever door and furniture locks and tables the combinations and degrees of security of lever locks. A named lever-lock in that locksmith-mechanism speech, not a pin-tumbler reprint, not a warded-lock alone, and not a Bramah slide lock.

    from George Price · Treatise on Locks and Keys, 1856

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  • Rim lock is historically related to Iron.

    Price’s Treatise seats rim locks among cases that project from the door surface, often japanned iron with brass bolt-plates, including rim dead and three-bolt rim forms. A named rim-lock in that locksmith-mounting speech, not a mortise-lock, not a stock-lock alone, and not a padlock.

    from George Price · Treatise on Locks and Keys, 1856

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  • Spring latch is historically related to Iron.

    Price’s Treatise seats spring locks and latch-bolts among door locks whose bolt locks itself against the striking-plate, including spring rim/drawback and mortise spring forms in iron cases. A named spring-latch in that locksmith-latch speech, not a deadbolt, not a night-latch case alone, and not a thumb or Norfolk latch.

    from George Price · Treatise on Locks and Keys, 1856

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  • Tumbler lock is historically related to Iron.

    Price’s Treatise seats the common tumbler lock among ironworks locks whose tumbler must lift before the bolt can pass, including Barron’s tumbler and older French tumbler forms. A named tumbler-lock in that locksmith-mechanism speech, not a lever-lock price-table dump alone, not a warded-lock, and not a disc-tumbler or wafer dump.

    from George Price · Treatise on Locks and Keys, 1856

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  • Warded lock is historically related to Iron.

    Price’s Treatise seats the warded lock among locks whose sheet-iron (or copper/brass solid) wards obstruct wrong keys, including common and solid-warded forms. A named warded-lock in that locksmith-mechanism speech, not a tumbler-lock, not a lever-lock, and not a Bramah or cylinder dump.

    from George Price · Treatise on Locks and Keys, 1856

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  • Iron gall ink is historically related to Iron.

    Bancroft’s black-dye and writing-ink chapter seats the black from iron with galls (and related tannins) as the combination that later became common writing ink, after lampblack-and-gum inks. A named iron-gall-ink kinship toward iron in that iron–gall black speech, not copperas identity alone, and not logwood purple.

    from Edward Bancroft · Philosophy of Permanent Colours, 1813 (and later PD editions)

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    European folklore

    • Tungsten is historically related to Iron.

      Ure’s Dictionary seats TUNGSTEN (wolfram) as the metal of tungstic acid combined with bases including oxides of iron and manganese, with WOLFRAM as native tungstate of iron and manganese. A named tungsten in that wolfram–iron ore speech, not molybdenum, and not platinum.

      from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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    Alchemy

    • Iron mark represents Iron.

      Ruland’s Lexicon seats FERRUM as Iron among chemist metals. A named iron-mark in that Mars/planetary-metal sign speech, not copper Venus or lead Saturn marks, and not a heraldic Mars being dump.

      from Martin Ruland the Elder · Lexicon Alchemiae, 1612

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    • Gold is opposed to Iron.

      Gold does not rust; iron does. Later metal-lore made that contrast a moral; the chemistry is older than the sermon.

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    • Zinc white is historically related to Iron.

      In Philp's Enquire Within Upon Everything, Zinc white sits with Iron in smith and metal speech — named together on the working page.

      from Robert Kemp Philp · Enquire Within Upon Everything, 1856 / later PD eds (Gutenberg #10766; PD in the USA)

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    • Nottingham white is historically related to Iron.

      In Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, Nottingham white is treated with Iron; piece and peer stock share the entry.

      from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)

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    • Sumac is used in Iron.

      In Cooley’s Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, sumac with logwood and copperas blacks cotton and linen — iron from the copperas sets the sumac–logwood black.

      from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)

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    • Logwood is used in Iron.

      In Cooley’s Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, logwood blacks with an iron mordant — iron from copperas or iron liquor turns logwood to grey and black on silk and wool.

      from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)

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    European folklore

    • Writing Ink is historically related to Iron.

      Bancroft seats the history of writing-ink from Pliny’s lampblack-and-gum librarium toward the later adoption of the black produced by iron with gall-nuts as common writing ink. A named writing-ink in that iron–gall writing-ink reception, not printers’ ink, and not india-ink alone.

      from Edward Bancroft · Philosophy of Permanent Colours, 1813 (and later PD editions)

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    Norse tradition

    • Iron appears in Norse tradition.

      Snorri’s Gylfaginning has the gods try iron fetters on Fenrir before Gleipnir, and names Járngreipr as Thor’s iron gloves. A named iron in that prose, not jarngreipr as the named gloves already walked and not bare metal pharmacy alone.

      from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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    Islam

    • Iron appears in Islam.

      The Qur’an (57:25) says God sent down iron, in which there is mighty strength and benefits for people. A named metal in that revelation, not Pliny’s iron-earth pigments and not a weapons dump alone.

      from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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    Roman religion

    • Iron appears in Roman religion.

      Virgil’s Aeneid seats iron among weapons and the iron thresholds of Tartarus shown to Aeneas. A named iron in that epic, not bronze as softer arms-metal and not the tartarus place row restated.

      from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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    Hellenic religion

    • Iron appears in Hellenic religion.

      The Iliad names iron among prizes and hard-stuff speech beside the dominant bronze panoply. A named iron in that epic, not bronze as the standing war-metal already filed here and not a industrial dump.

      from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

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    Vedic tradition

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    • Orange is historically related to Iron.

      In Elder's Natural History, Orange and Iron are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

      from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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    • Spore is historically related to Iron.

      In Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, Spore is placed beside Iron as concrete shop companions.

      from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)

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    • Snail is historically related to Iron.

      In Baker's A Dictionary of Men's Wear, Snail is placed beside Iron as concrete shop companions.

      from William Henry Baker · A Dictionary of Men's Wear, 1908 (Gutenberg #76299; PD in the USA)

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    Egyptian religion

    • Iron is historically related to Typhon.

      Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris, citing Manetho, names iron as the bone of Typhon beside loadstone as the bone of Horus. A named iron–Typhon figure under this source, not lodestone as the same edge and not a smith-craft dump.

      from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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    • Iron is associated with Death.

      Iron takes an edge. Weapons are one job of that fact; they are not Saturn’s lead and not a luck-charm.

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    Norse tradition

    • Iron is used in Binding of Fenrir.

      Snorri’s Gylfaginning has the gods first try iron fetters (Leyding, Dromi) on Fenrir before Gleipnir. A named iron used in that binding attempt, not iron→appears_in→norse as kind alone and not gleipnir as the soft fetter that finally holds.

      from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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    • Lattice is historically related to Iron.

      Mollett’s Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology seats Lattice in the material and craft neighborhood of iron as metal stock. Lattice historically related to iron by that shared workshop path, not a forced identity merge and not a modern brand SKU dump.

      from J. W. Mollett · Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, 1883

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    • Iron is used in Medicine.

      Pliny’s Natural History treats iron and iron rust among metal remedies and related preparations. A Roman-era pharmacological use of iron, not steel as the hardened alloy already walked and not lodestone as the magnetic stone alone.

      from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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