Active Iron: The amount of steel (iron) in the stator and rotor of a motor. Usually the amount of active iron is increased or decreased by lengthening or shortening the rotor and stator (they are generally the same length).

 

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Active Iron: The amount of steel (iron) in the stator and rotor of a motor. Usually the amount of active iron is increased or decreased by lengthening or shortening the rotor and stator (they are general . . . View Full Definition

Iron Carbide: A binary compound of carbon and iron: it becomes the strengthening constituent in steel.

Iron Butt Rally: The Iron Butt Rally is an 11 day 11,000 mile trip around the perimeter of the United States. It has a series of checkpoints that must be visited within a two-hour window.

Iron (Fe): Atomic number: 26, Atomic mass: 55.85 g.mol -1, Electronegativity: 1.8, Density: 7.8 g.cm-3 at 20°C, Melting point: 1536 °C, Boiling point: 2861 °C, Vanderwaalsradius: 0.126 nm, Ionic radius . . . View Full Definition

Internal Environment: In multicellular organisms, the aqueous environment that is outside the cells but inside the body.

Iron: A club with a head made of steel or iron and a relatively narrow sole (usually somewhere between 16° and 65° and numbered 1 through a variety of 'wedges')

Iron Compass: Railroad tracks, favored by pilots of yore as a dependable aid to surface navigation before radio.

Iron Formation: A layered deposit of chemical sedimentary rocks containing at least 15 percent (by weight) iron in the form of sulfide, oxide, hydroxide, or carbonate minerals.

Irony: Stating something by saying another quite different thing, sometimes its opposite. An example is sir thomas wyatt's 'and i have leave to go, of her goodness' from his 'they flee from me.'

Long Iron: The longer-shafted, steeper-faced, (and hopefully) longer distance irons, generally numbers 1 through 4