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- Latin · derived frommitis“mild”
- English todaymitis
Perhaps from Latin mitis (“mild”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mitis
Today it means: A process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay. Full definition →
Latin mitis