How to Use ferrous in a Sentence

ferrous

adjective

• The sirloin and the prime rib were watery, without the ferrous edge of bull's blood.
  — John Mariani, Esquire, 22 Aug. 2008
• There are two main types of iron: ferrous and non-ferrous.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• As for flavor, the gameyness of the meat is subtle, with a ferrous accent on the finish.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2022
• Cool iron atoms clustered inside a ring of their fevered ferrous cousins.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2014
• Frehiwot Reta, the chef, ferments the bread for three days, and the result is fresh, springy, and tartly ferrous.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2016
• Even the worst rate of loss (among non-ferrous metals) only reaches 6 percent.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
• Ferrous materials will show signs of rust so •Check for rust on screws in the console areas.
  — Bill Alkofer, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2017
• The soil seems to come through in the wine, which in the 2019 vintage balances a bitter, ferrous backbone with unctuous flavors of cocoa and fig.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
• Ferrous iron is more easily absorbed by the body, while non-ferrous iron is not as well absorbed.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• The jelly rust remover works with a phosphoric acid base, breaking down even old rust in ferrous metals such as iron and steel.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2023
• Schnitzer Steel Industries is one of the largest ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal recyclers in the U.S.
  — Q.ai - Investing Reimagined, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Even the most robust bike is going to show the effects of constant salt air bombardment, and the Coasts did reveal their few ferrous parts—the nut and bolt under the seat post, for instance.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2019
• This oxidized the iron present in the sand needed to produce glass, clearing up its blue-green tint by transforming ferrous to paler ferric.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• The next station uses a huge rotating magnet to pull out any ferrous metals, which range from tin cans (which have very little tin) to car parts.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2018
• Behind him, past scavenging and defecating prisoners, is a fence of barbed wire, and beyond it, a sky of ferrous gray.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• LifeCentric Health Iron Gummies are made with ferrous fumarate and have no metallic after taste.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• Then, Caplan says, the last remnants—the long-simmering white dwarfs—will reignite like trick birthday cake candles as their centers are finally dense and ferrous enough to react.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2020
• With impressive specificity, EBC Brakes says that 92 percent of the brake dust on a wheel is ferrous metal material.
  — Car and Driver, 10 Apr. 2020
• Few people outside the repair industry know this, but the posted body shop labor hours on aluminum are at least two and possibly three times those on ferrous metal.
  — Ed Wallace, star-telegram.com, 16 June 2017
• Lithuania restricted the transit of sanctioned steel and ferrous metals to Kaliningrad, cut off from Russia but sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022
• Iron-ore futures reached fresh 4½-year highs on Friday, with ongoing tumult for miner Vale SA extending the ferrous metal’s sharp recent gains.
  — David Hodari, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2019
• By severely limiting North Korea’s exports of coal and non-ferrous metals, such as copper, the UN expects to cut the country’s revenue by more than $800 million every year.
  — CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
• Output in some sectors -- including iron and steel, coke and non-ferrous metals -- have exceeded levels seen during the same period in previous years, the ministry said.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 Nov. 2020
• In the past, researchers studied specific cells by isolating them, injecting them with ferrous iron and literally pulling cells away from each other with a magnet.
  — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
• The red’s ferrous minerality and salty ocean tang make this pour especially beguiling.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
• But much like a steel needle (and unlike most ocean-bottom debris), meteoritic fragments tend to contain ferrous material.
  — Amir Siraj, Scientific American, 5 July 2023
• Powerful magnets then remove ferrous metals from the mixture, but toxic metals like nickel remain.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2022
• Steel Dynamics, which has facilities located in the U.S. and in Mexico, produces steel products, liquid pig iron, and processes and sells ferrous and nonferrous scrap.
  — Aisha Al-Muslim, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• By varying electric current through a ferrous fluid, Magnetic Ride Control dampers can adjust their stiffness in response to driving conditions.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2017
• The rest of the stream then passes under overhead magnets, which collect items made of ferrous metals, and an eddy-current-inducing machine, which jolts nonferrous metals to another collection area.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2022

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