Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...
The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...
Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...
Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 ...
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Experts reinvestigated a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia and found that what they believed to be an iron ...
It’s the shape and porosity, not the size, of metal oxide particles that matter for efficiency in electrochemical ironmaking. Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern ...