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How did pig iron get its name?

How did pig iron get its name?

 

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It is cast as ingots connected by a runner.  To the smelters, it resembled piglets in a line, suckling from their mother.  Thus, the ingots are called pigs and the runner is a sow.

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
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