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[[File:Masseln.jpg|thumb|200px|Pig iron in the Herrenwyk Industrial Museum History Workshop, Lübeck, Germany]] | [[File:Masseln.jpg|thumb|200px|Pig iron in the Herrenwyk Industrial Museum History Workshop, Lübeck, Germany]] | ||
'''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". | '''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". | ||
Pig iron can be later processed into steel. | |||
[[File:Iron pot.jpg|thumb|Pig iron is low grade cast iron with impurities so it can be used for making a lot of things]] | |||
Also with pig iron you can be casted into different things that doesn’t require steel properties to function for example Pans. | |||
== Dependencies == | |||
* [[Iron ore]] | |||
* [[Steel]] | |||
** [[Carbon]] | |||
** [[Pig iron]] | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Sponge iron]] | |||
* [[Sponge | * [[Wrought iron]] | ||
* [[Wrought | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{wa| | {{wa|Pig_iron}} | ||
[[Category:Iron]] | [[Category:Iron]] | ||
[[Category:Stubs]] | [[Category:Stubs]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:30, 14 May 2025
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".
Pig iron can be later processed into steel.
Also with pig iron you can be casted into different things that doesn’t require steel properties to function for example Pans.
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