cast-iron vs irreversible

cast-iron

irreversible

adj
  • Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward. 

  • Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled. 

  • Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy. 

How often have the words cast-iron and irreversible occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )