Producing Steel
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Purifying pig iron produces steel, to get rid of the many impurities during smelting. I am going to explain how this is done, and the uses of steel produced in four furnaces.
BASSEMER CONVERTER
This was made in England. Molten pig iron was change to steel when air was blown through it after it was ....
Middle of paper
.... the metal in small streams. Modern improvements in steelmaking have come from the use of oxygen gas instead of air to burn the impurities in molten iron.
OPEN HEARTH FURNACE
Siemens brothers in the middle of the nineteenth century made this method in the country of England. This instrument supplies Three quarters of the world steel.
The metal in the furnace is contained in a shallow bath, which is surrounded by walls and a roof of brick for fire.
Moving doors are which raw materials a ....
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