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Iron

Iron is the chemical element with the symbol Fe and the atomic number 26. It is the most common element making up earth as a whole.

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Cast iron

Metals; Iron

Iron with a high carbon content (above 2%). Identical, in most cases, to pig iron, it is easily cast to almost any shape and melts at a lower temperature to other type of iron and steel. ...

Bessemer process

Metals; Iron

Process by which high quality steel is produced from molten pig iron. Now superseded by other methods, the process was patented by Henry Bessemer is 1856. The molten iron is poured into the 'Bessemer ...

Siemens open hearth furnace

Metals; Iron

Following the sucessful introduction of the Bessemer process for producing steel, the Siemens process was devised. It can be regarded as an updated and enlarged version of the puddling process but ...

Galvanise

Metals; Iron

To coat iron or steel with a thin layer of zinc so that it does not rust. Metal is usually galvanised by the process called electrolysis.

Alloy

Metals; Iron

A substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition. 

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