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Fe

US/ˈfeɪ/ fairly common uk

noun

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a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood

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Abbreviation, from forty-eighth, corresponding to one forty-eighth of a standard uncut sheet of paper.

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