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In formal writing for metalworking contexts, accurate terms like angle stock, channel stock, and sheet are used. They have lived on after the era of commercial wrought iron and are still sometimes heard today, informally, in reference to steel angle stock, channel stock, and sheet, despite that they are misnomers (compare 'tin foil', still sometimes used informally for aluminum foil). The terms angle iron, channel iron, and sheet iron have been in common use since before wrought iron was replaced by steel for commercial purposes. While many sections are made by hot or cold rolling, others are made by welding together flat or bent plates (for example, the largest circular hollow sections are made from flat plate bent into a circle and seam-welded).

Plate, metal sheets thicker than 6 mm or 1⁄ 4 in.

Rod, a round or square section long compared to its width see also rebar and dowel.Bar, a long piece with a rectangular cross section, but not so wide so as to be called a sheet.Structural channel, or C-beam, or C cross-section.

HSS-Shape ( Hollow structural section also known as SHS (structural hollow section) and including square, rectangular, circular ( pipe) and elliptical cross sections).Z-Shape (half a flange in opposite directions).I-beam ( I-shaped cross-section – in Britain these include Universal Beams (UB) and Universal Columns (UC) in Europe it includes the IPE, HE, HL, HD and other sections in the US it includes Wide Flange (WF or W-Shape) and H sections).A steel I-beam, in this case used to support timber joists in a house.

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