pig iron

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The freighter carrying pig iron is cleaving through the water.
裝著生鐵的貨船正在破浪前進。
A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron.
鐵匠鋪，鍛造車間將生鐵鍛造成熟鐵的工場或車間。
Since pig iron and scrap are cheap, and because there is no expensive refinement process, cast iron is a low cost material compared with steel.
由于生鐵和廢鋼鐵都便宜，又因為不需要昂貴的精煉過程，和鋼相比鑄鐵是一種廉價材料。

It was replaced by a gray lull, all smoke and pig iron.
NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy
Scientific housekeeping, with its standards of spotlessness and shininess, was founded on no less a fudge than the forty-seven and a half tons of pig iron.
NEWYORKER: Not So Fast
According to a recent Greenpeace study, illegal wood charcoal is primarily used in Brazil to power smelters producing pig iron, which is used to make steel for industries including U.S. auto manufacturing.
FORBES: Green Accounting: A Greener Bottom Line?

crude iron produced in a blast furnace and poured into moulds in preparation for making wrought iron, steels, alloys, etc