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(now largely obsolete), which may contain a small amount of carbon A (<0.1 %) but large amounts of slag (around 1-2%).

When iron is smelted from its ore with coke or charcoal, the result has a high amount of carbon and is known as pig iron. To become steel, it must be reprocessed to reduce the carbon to the correct amount, at which point other

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