Iron and Steel: The Billion-Ton Business

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Iron and Steel: The Billion-Ton Business

<img alt="" src="http://whyfiles.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/steel_rods.jpg" width="270" height="181" align="right" />The tight bond between iron and oxygen in iron ore explains much of the environmental cost of making steel. But with a 2850 °F process that uses electricity to separate iron and oxygen, MIT professor Donald Sadoway may have found a way to sidestep those environmental drawbacks.

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