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Recent Examples of ingotBut what makes this discovery at the Domus Aurea all the more remarkable is the whopping size of the Egyptian blue ingot in question, which weighs more than five pounds and measures six inches long.—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025 Since then, a number of bakers across the country have introduced new versions of the classic sweet, which typically takes the form of a buttery shortcrust shaped like an ingot and filled with pineapple, which is sometimes mixed with winter melon.—Sarah Archer Gisela Williams Martha Cheng Carla Valdivia Nakatani Ryan Haase, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 The uranium is then fabricated into a large circular ingot before being fashioned into low-dose, smaller shapes in a high-temperature furnace.—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2024 Makers of thin-film cells deposit layers of semiconductor material directly on a substrate of glass, metal, or plastic instead of slicing wafers from a silicon ingot.—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2014 See All Example Sentences for ingot
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slab
Noun
The last time the warehouse sold, it was flanked by another warehouse and an old brick building, with a stone and slab showroom across the street.
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Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
10 Sep. 2025
Investigators had said previously that a slab-column connection in the pool deck failing was a possible trigger of the entire building collapse.
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