Pig iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate good used by the iron industry in the production of steel. It is developed by smelting iron ore...
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Pig iron is an intermediate form of iron produced from iron ore. Pig iron may also refer to: Pig Iron – The Album, by Anti-Nowhere League Pig Iron Theatre...
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The Lehigh Valley IronPigs are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League (IL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies. They...
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Nickel pig iron (NPI) is a low grade ferronickel invented in China as a cheaper alternative to pure nickel for the production of stainless steel[citation...
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is a list of countries by iron ore production based on U.S. Geological Survey data. This is a list of countries by pig iron production. List of countries...
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directly from ore, cast iron or pig iron were the starting materials used in the finery forge and puddling furnace. Pig iron and cast iron have higher carbon...
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sixth-largest producer of pig iron. The industry produced 29 million metric tons of pig iron and 88 million tons of steel. Most iron and steel in the United...
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Puddling (metallurgy) (redirect from Puddle iron)
converting pig iron to bar (wrought) iron in a coal fired reverberatory furnace. It was developed in England during the 1780s. The molten pig iron was stirred...
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Blast furnace (redirect from Iron blast furnace)
metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. Blast refers to the combustion...
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Ferrous metallurgy (redirect from Iron industry)
smiths in Europe found a way of producing wrought iron from cast iron, in this context known as pig iron, using finery forges. All these processes required...
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furnace, making wrought iron from pig iron How iron was extracted in the 19th century Iron furnace in Columbus, Ohio, 1922 The pig iron produced by the blast...
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of pigs represented in prehistoric artworks of the Iron Age and earlier in ancient Europe. A project to create them, under the name Iron Age pig, started...
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Alloy (section Meteoric iron)
from the heating of iron ore in fires (smelting) during the manufacture of iron. Other ancient alloys include pewter, brass and pig iron. In the modern age...
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1938 Dalfram dispute (section Pig iron for Japan)
the export of pig iron from Australia to Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It became famous for providing the nickname of Pig Iron Bob to Attorney...
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Malleable iron is cast as white iron, the structure being a metastable carbide in a pearlitic matrix. Through an annealing heat treatment, the brittle...
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Steel (section Processes starting from pig iron)
contents higher than those of steel make a brittle alloy commonly called pig iron. Alloy steel is steel to which other alloying elements have been intentionally...
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Robert Menzies (redirect from Pig Iron Bob)
he denied. In 1938, as part of the Dalfram dispute, he was ridiculed as Pig Iron Bob, the result of an industrial conflict with the Waterside Workers' Federation...
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make DRI economical: Direct-reduced iron has about the same iron content as pig iron, typically 90–94% total iron (depending on the quality of the raw...
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Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant (VISL), a unit of Steel Authority of India Limited, is a plant involved in the production of alloy steels and pig iron. It is...
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Smelting (redirect from Iron smelting)
gas. Smelting most prominently takes place in a blast furnace to produce pig iron, which is converted into steel. Plants for the electrolytic reduction of...
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Steelmaking (section Iron ore electrolysis)
processes for making steel, namely basic oxygen steelmaking, which has liquid pig-iron from the blast furnace and scrap steel as the main feed materials, and...
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steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation with...
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is the raw material used to make pig iron, which is one of the main raw materials to make steel—98% of the mined iron ore is used to make steel. In 2011...
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Crucible steel is steel made by melting pig iron (cast iron), iron, and sometimes steel, often along with sand, glass, ashes, and other fluxes, in a crucible...
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Frederick Winslow Taylor (section Scholarly debate about increased efficiency moving pig iron at Bethlehem's Iron and Steel)
D. Wrege and Amadeo G. Perroni, "Taylor's Pig Tale: A Historical Analysis of Frederick W. Taylor's Pig-Iron experiments" in: Academy of Management Journal...
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iron furnaces around Chesapeake Bay, supplied by bog iron ore, which was widespread. By 1751, Virginia and Maryland were exporting 2,950 tons of pig iron...
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product of melting iron ore in a blast furnace. Cast iron can be made directly from the molten pig iron or by re-melting pig iron, often along with substantial...
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Operation Pig Iron was a secret service measure planned and carried out by the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) from the summer of 1944 onwards...
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steelmaking in which carbon-rich molten pig iron is made into steel. Blowing oxygen through molten pig iron lowers the carbon content of the alloy and...
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industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to produce steel. Because steel is difficult to manufacture owing to its...
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