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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 room had cinderblock walls, a concrete slab floor and two rows of about 10 cages that were raised about waist high, each containing a chimpanzee in a near-frenzied state, hooting and shaking his or her metal enclosure.
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Ron Arias,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
For smaller-scale elevation, some also opt to raise the foundation by a few inches by adding a new concrete layer on top of the existing slab.
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