[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghav 'uSqan

[Terrence Donnelly]

This one confuses me, because I thought steel was iron from which most of the carbon has been removed.
ter'eS

      From: Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, April 22, 2017
> 
> Klingon word: ghav 'uSqan
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: steel
> Source: qepHom 2016

lit. "carbon iron"

ghav      carbon (n) (qepHom 2015)
'uSqan      iron (element) (n) (qepHom 2015)


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