Pig iron
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Pig iron, also known as crude iron or raw iron, is an intermediate good used by the iron industry in the production of steel. It is developed by smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. Pig iron has a hi
Pig iron used to manufacture ductile iron
Casting pig iron at the Iroquois smelter in Chicago between 1890 and 1901
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Basic oxygen steelmaking
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Basic oxygen steelmaking, also known as Linz-Donawitz steelmaking or the oxygen converter process, is a method of primary steelmaking in which carbon-rich molten pig iron is made into steel. Blowing o
Oxygen converter being charged at ThyssenKrupp steel mill in Duisburg (Germany)
Cross-section of a basic oxygen furnace
The outside of a basic oxygen steelmaking plant at the Scunthorpe steel works (England)