steelmaking

(noun)

The second step in producing steel from iron ore

Related Terms

  • electric arc furnace
  • Refining

Examples of steelmaking in the following topics:

  • Steelmaking and Refining

    • Steelmaking is the second step in producing steel from iron ore.
    • Modern steelmaking processes are broken into two categories: primary and secondary steelmaking.
    • Secondary steelmaking uses scrap steel as the primary raw material.
    • Basic oxygen steelmaking is a method of primary steelmaking in which carbon-rich molten pig iron (the iron created in the blast furnace) is made into steel.
    • The HIsarna steelmaking process is a process of primary steelmaking in which iron ore is processed almost directly into steel.
  • Properties of Nitrogen

    • Commercial nitrogen is often a byproduct of air-processing for industrial concentration of oxygen for steelmaking and other purposes.
  • Economic Development in the North

    • The greatly expanded railroad network, using inexpensive steel rails produced by new steelmaking processes, dramatically lowered transportation costs to areas without access to navigable waterways.
  • The Last of the New Deal Reforms

    • Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, attacked automaker Henry Ford, steelmaker Tom Girdler, and the superrich "Sixty Families" who supposedly comprised "the living center of the modern industrial oligarchy which dominates the United States."
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