Rifles meant powder, even if kept within soft iron.
Those are turbine rings, but they're only soft iron now.
The traditional material for pole pieces was soft iron.
The verutum was a short-range weapon, with a simply made head of soft iron.
In general you want what is referred to as a "soft" iron.
The team initially considered small plates of soft iron, like those in a transformer core.
You won't damage it by sawing slices from a mass of soft iron.
Steel with a low carbon content has the same properties as iron, soft but easily formed.
Here soft iron was used as insulation, and a peculiar plastic seemed to form the conductor.
Easily magnetized materials such as soft iron have low reluctance.