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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Latin name for iron, from which the chemical symbol for the metal, Fe, is derived: used by German pharmaceutical chemists, in price-lists, etc., and in the names for iron compounds, as ferrum citricum, citrate of iron.

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  • I prefer this word over "iron".

    August 26, 2008