cast iron

group of iron-carbon alloys
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cast iron

Summary

cast iron ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (734 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cast iron's image is recorded as Poids fonte 5 kg trapezoidal.jpg[2].
  • cast iron's GND ID is recorded as 4022578-1[3].
  • cast iron's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 11097-15-7[4].
  • cast iron's EC number is recorded as 601-019-2[5].
  • cast iron's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85020635[6].
  • cast iron's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11947594x[7].
  • cast iron's subclass of is recorded as alloy[8].
  • cast iron's subclass of is recorded as ferroalloy[9].
  • cast iron's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00573955[10].
  • cast iron's Commons category is recorded as Cast iron[11].
  • cast iron's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 24355[12].
  • cast iron's has part is recorded as iron[13].
  • cast iron's has part is recorded as carbon[14].
  • cast iron's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0_1c0[15].
  • cast iron's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph122413[16].
  • cast iron's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cast iron[17].
  • cast iron's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300011004[18].
  • cast iron's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 669.1413[19].
  • cast iron's PSH ID is recorded as 5311[20].
  • cast iron's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as TA474-TA475[21].
  • cast iron's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 701115[22].
  • cast iron's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0119581[23].
  • cast iron's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • cast iron's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[25].
  • cast iron's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/cast-iron[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for cast iron include Eiserne Bridge[27], a stone bridge[28], in Germany[29], founded in 1916[30].

Why It Matters

cast iron ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (734 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include Eiserne Bridge[27], a stone bridge[28], in Germany[29], founded in 1916[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . ChemIDplus. chem.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . ECHA Substance Infocard database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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