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Steelmaking is the process of producing steel from iron ore and/or scrap. In steelmaking, impurities such as nitrogen, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, and excess carbon (the most important impurity) are removed from the sourced iron, and alloying elements such as manganese, nickel, chromium, carbon, and vanadium are added to produce different ...
Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its alloys. The earliest surviving prehistoric iron artifacts, from the 4th millennium BC in Egypt, [1] were made from meteoritic iron-nickel. [2] It is not known when or where the smelting of iron from ores began, but by the end of the 2nd millennium BC iron was being produced from iron ores in ...
A Walloon forge (or Walloon process) is a type of finery forge that decarbonizes pig iron into wrought iron . The process was conceived in the Liège region, and from there extended to France, [1] then England around the end of the 15th century. [2] [3] Louis de Geer brought it to Roslagen in Sweden at the beginning of the 17th century, with ...
Iron metallurgy may have been independently developed in the Nok culture between the 9th century BCE and 550 BCE. [ 5][ 6] The nearby Djenné-Djenno culture of the Niger Valley in Mali shows evidence of iron production from c. 250 BCE. The Bantu expansion spread the technology to Eastern and Southern Africa between 500 BCE and 400 CE, as shown ...
Bringewood Ironworks was a charcoal ironworks in north Herefordshire. It was powered by the river Teme, with a blast furnace, a finery forge and latterly a rolling mill for blackplate (to be tinned into tinplate ). The Forge Bridge at Bringewood Forge, c.1772. It was probably built for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in the 1590s, but ...
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Falling Creek Ironworks. / 37.43861°N 77.43861°W / 37.43861; -77.43861. Falling Creek Ironworks was the first iron production facility in North America. It was established by the Virginia Company of London in Henrico Cittie (sic) on Falling Creek near its confluence with the James River. It was short-lived due to an attack by Native ...
Over the last 25 years, the Skytrax Awards have built a reputation as the Oscars of the airline world—and picking this year’s winner came down to the wire.. In the end, Qatar Airways took top ...