Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%). It is a semi-fused mass...
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Ferrous metallurgy (redirect from Iron industry)
India,[page needed] The use of wrought iron (worked iron) was known by the 1st millennium BC, and its spread defined the Iron Age. During the medieval period...
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Puddling (metallurgy) (redirect from Puddled wrought 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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demolished and rebuilt, often in wrought iron. The bridge had been badly designed, being trussed with wrought iron straps, which were wrongly thought...
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refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron (or bar iron) using innovative production systems. In 1783 he patented the puddling process for refining iron ore...
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structures. Wrought iron, iron with a very low carbon content that has been wrought (hammered) by hand. All pages with titles beginning with Wrought Wright...
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and relatively low tensile strength compared to steel and wrought iron. However, cast iron does have good compressive strength and was successfully used...
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Blacksmith (section Before the Iron Age)
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools...
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Structural material (section Wrought iron)
support loads. Common structural materials are: Wrought iron is the simplest form of iron, and is almost pure iron (typically less than 0.15% carbon). It usually...
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melt iron or steel. However, pig iron, having a higher carbon content and thus a lower melting point, could be melted, and by soaking wrought iron or steel...
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producing wrought iron were known in ancient Europe and the Middle East, but it was produced in bloomeries by direct reduction. Small prills of pig iron dispersed...
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Munich, in Jugendstil, by August Endell (1896–97) The use of wrought iron or cast iron in scrolling whiplash forms on doorways, balconies, and gratings...
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Bloomery (redirect from Catalan forge (iron))
and iron in the bloom, termed sponge iron, is usually consolidated and further forged into wrought iron. Blast furnaces, which produce pig iron, have...
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The term iron frame describes the structural use of either cast iron or wrought iron in the columns and beams of a building. While popular in the 19th...
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Steel (section Processes starting from bar iron)
distinguishable from wrought iron (now largely obsolete), which may contain a small amount of carbon but large amounts of slag. Iron is commonly found in...
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Ironclad warship (redirect from Iron-clad warship)
power. The use of wrought iron instead of wood as the primary material of ships' hulls began in the 1830s; the first "warship" with an iron hull was the gunboat...
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carbon-free wrought iron, usually imported from Sweden. The manufacturing process, called the cementation process, consisted of heating bars of wrought iron together...
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word "iron" is what is now called wrought iron. In East Asia, cast iron was also common after 500 BCE, and was called "cooked iron", with wrought iron being...
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high-purity wrought iron, charcoal, and glass were mixed in a crucible and heated until the iron melted and absorbed the carbon. The protohistoric Early Iron Age...
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Ductile iron, also known as ductile cast iron, nodular cast iron, spheroidal graphite iron, spheroidal graphite cast iron and SG iron, is a type of graphite-rich...
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Smelting (redirect from Iron smelting)
consolidated with a hammer to produce wrought iron. The earliest evidence to date for the bloomery smelting of iron is found at Tell Hammeh, Jordan ([1])...
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largest producer of direct-reduced iron. Sponge iron is not useful by itself, but can be processed to create wrought iron or steel. The sponge is removed...
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Blast furnace (redirect from Iron blast furnace)
important, such as warfare, wrought iron and steel were preferred. Nearly all Han period weapons are made of wrought iron or steel, with the exception...
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Alloy (section Meteoric iron)
controlled to produce desirable properties, while impure metals such as wrought iron are less controlled, but are often considered useful. Alloys are made...
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built-up gun construction system of a wrought-iron (later of mild steel) tube surrounded by a number of wrought-iron strengthening coils shrunk over the...
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buildings throughout the world. Wrought iron CGI was gradually replaced by mild steel from around the 1890s, and iron CGI is no longer obtainable, but...
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centuries was bar or wrought iron. Wrought iron is shaped by repeated blows with a hammer while hot. A piece of hot short iron will crack if worked with...
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Saint-Gobain. The construction technology of the roof employs primary wrought-iron arches in order to support the glazing. By contrast, arcades that were...
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give off sparks that are indistinguishable to the human eye. Wrought iron Wrought iron sparks flow out in straight lines. The tails of the sparks widen...
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