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Six example sentences with ferrous, each labelled with its topic.
Scrap yards pay by weight, so a magnet sorts ferrous material from aluminum before anything reaches the crusher.
Business
Roman engineers valued ferrous tools for tunneling, and abandoned mines still show the chisel marks they left behind.
History
Coastal builders avoid ferrous fixings near salt spray because rust stains bleed down the pale stone within a season.
Architecture
The doctor prescribed ferrous sulfate tablets for anemia and warned that the iron would upset an empty stomach.
Medicine
Cassette tape carries a ferrous coating of iron oxide, and the recorder's head rearranges those particles into a magnetic pattern.
Technology
Ferrous runoff from the abandoned mine stains the creek bed orange for two miles below the old workings.
Environment
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