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<div>[[File:Masseln.jpg|thumb|200px|Pig iron in the Herrenwyk Industrial Museum History Workshop, Lübeck, Germany]]<br />
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'''Pig iron''' is an intermediate product of the [[iron]] industry in the production of [[steel]] which is obtained by smelting [[iron ore]] in a blast furnace. Pig iron has a very high [[carbon]] content, which makes it very brittle and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications. The traditional shape of the molds used for pig iron ingots is a branching structure formed in [[sand]], with many individual ingots at right angles to a central channel or "runner", resembling a litter of piglets being nursed by a sow. When the metal had cooled and hardened, the smaller ingots (the "pigs") were simply broken from the runner (the "sow"), hence the name "pig iron".<br />
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== Dependencies ==<br />
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* [[Iron ore]]<br />
* [[Steel]]<br />
** [[Carbon]]<br />
** [[Pig iron]]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Sponge iron]]<br />
* [[Wrought iron]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{wa|Pig_iron}}<br />
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[[Category:Iron]]<br />
[[Category:Stubs]]</div>Pfsdam