Iron (disambiguation)
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The word iron without qualification commonly refers to:
- Iron, the chemical element
- Iron, used for ironing clothing
- Iron (metaphor)
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[edit] Places
- Iron, Aisne, a commune in northern France of the Aisne département
- Iron County, a county in several US states
[edit] History
- Iron Curtain boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II
- Iron Cross, German Military Decoration
[edit] Implements and procedures
- Iron, clothes iron, or smoothing iron, used for ironing clothing
- Iron, a type of golf club
- Curling iron, a device used to curl hair
- Flat iron, a device used to straighten hair (also an old word for a clothes iron)
- Soldering iron, a device used to melt solder
- A hand plane's cutting blade, a tool used in woodworking
- Leg irons
- Ironing (metalworking), a manufacturing process used in the production of aluminum cans
[edit] Names
- "The Iron", the nickname of the Scunthorpe United, a football team in Scunthorpe, England
- "The Irons", a nickname for the FA Premier League football club West Ham United
[edit] In entertainment
- Iron (Ensiferum), an album by Ensiferum
[edit] People
- Brandon Iron, a Canadian actor
- Jeremy Irons, an English actor
[edit] Other
- Irones, fragrance compounds in the essential oil of the Iris plant
- Iron (dialect), a dialect of the Ossetian language
- Iron, the translation of the name of a Surah in the Qur'an.