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How iron is turned into steel
Iron-carbon equilibrium diagram.
Scientific secrets of Game of Thrones' Valyrian steel
A basic oxygen furnace shop. An electric-arc furnace. Open-hearth furnace. Three ladle treatment stations. Ingot solidification. A curved-mold continuous slab caster.
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How iron is turned into steel
Iron ore is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, and one of its primary uses...
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Scientific secrets of Game of Thrones' Valyrian steel
Using science to determine if Valyrian steel from Game of Thrones can be...
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Visit the Wire Museum in Altena, Germany
A visit to the wire-drawing (or wire-pulling) museum in Altena, Germany.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Tobias Arhelger/Dreamstime.com; © Iurii Kosintcev/Dreamstime.com
How scrap metal becomes steel in Norway's northernmost mill
Overview of a steelworks in Mo i Rana, Norway.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Wafuefotodesign/Dreamstime.com; © Bahdan Zhorau/Dreamstime.com

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Molten steel being poured into a ladle from an electric arc furnace, 1940s.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-fsac-1a35062)
Iron-carbon equilibrium diagram.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A basic oxygen furnace shop.
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An electric-arc furnace.
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Open-hearth furnace.
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Three ladle treatment stations.
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Ingot solidification.
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A curved-mold continuous slab caster.
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Gap between two rolls, showing reduction and elongation of workpiece (see text).
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Two basic rolling-mill designs.
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Two-high, three-high, four-high, six-high, cluster, and planetary roll arrangements.
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Two rolling-mill arrangements.
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The rolling of billets and bars.
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The rolling of structural shapes.
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Production of welded tubes.
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Production of seamless tubes.
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Principles of (A) hot-dip and (B) electrolytic galvanizing.
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Anshan, Liaoning province, China: rolling mill
Rolling mill at an iron and steel plant in Anshan, Liaoning province, China.
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steel galvanized with zinc
Rolls of sheet steel galvanized with zinc in a factory warehouse.
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