iron ore
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- noun
- /ˈaɪərn ɔr/
- Specialized
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mineral de hierro
- Iron ore is a crucial raw material used in making steel for construction and manufacturing.
- iron ore deposit
- iron ore exports
- grades of iron ore
No steel is product you would put, you have to be put in iron ore and carbon and lots of other stuff energy.
- No steel is product you would put, you have to be put in iron ore and carbon and lots of other stuff energy.
Examples
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The biggest open-cut iron-ore mine in the world.
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In its natural state, iron ore is a metallic-looking rock that usually has other types of nonmetallic rock clinging to it.
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There is no iron ore here, and we had very little industry.
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All right, something has got to be done about the iron ore shortage.
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Mining iron ore in northern New Jersey.
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Moving basic materials such as iron ore and coal is a different matter altogether.
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The cost of imported iron ore, steel, and aluminum went up by more than a third in 2003.
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Iron ore, found all over the mountain, was smelted and exchanged for other products in many places.
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Some of this is due to the trade tensions between the two countries, and some of it is due to the fall in the price of iron ore, which is Australia's biggest export.
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Angola currently has two main hard-currency earners, petroleum and diamonds, but until the war, it had substantial iron ore exports.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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3.7
A rock or mineral that has metal you can take out and sell
A type of iron ore with a lot of lime used in making steel
A dark rock with much iron that sticks to a magnet and people use to make iron
A hard rock that has a lot of iron used to make metal
How Rich
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'iron' (the metal) with 'ore' (rock/mineral from which metals are extracted); the composition denotes rock containing iron. This straightforward noun+noun composition is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Iron ore comes from a simple picture of a rock that has iron inside. The word ore was the name for rock you mine to get metal, so iron ore means 'a rock you can mine to get iron'.