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Default Interesting pliers at CPC
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On 14 Jun,
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

In article ,
Tim Lamb wrote:
*iron* fencing wire can be soft or, in the high tensile version ******
hard.
Is there such a thing as high tensile iron? Or is it steel?

Raw cast iron probably would be if it wasn't for the carbon irregularities in
it which makes it break easily in tension.

but cast iron isn't pure iron.

Its absurdly high carbon steel :-)

The nearest thing you find to iron is in magnetic circuits. But even
those are alloys of one sort or another

Pure iron is softer than aluminium.

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