Difference Between Pig iron, Wrought iron, Cast Iron And Steel - An Overview.

Ilmenite is an ore of Titanium

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Yes we all know carbon is not alloying element, but u must kn9w without carbon u cant do anything. So wt u say be in d8fferent ways but essence is not essence it is an effect of property changing by chemical reaction process. It is like our stomach digestion

I fooled you, i have pig iron. All pig iron

Interesting, but haven't we surpassed the decades when we used steel that wasn't stainless? I would say/write since about the 1960ies hardly anyone uses steel that easily corrodes, any builder will afford stainless or inox (or whatever naming) steel, so why isn't that part of the video? would "we" drown back into the 1950ies or to even before? why would we? I'd even add it wouldn't be simple finding steel that rusts normally (due to abundance of chromium or whatever alloy component). At least that's still the situation in "metric" europe, i'd say.

I thought it was because it was a pig to work with.

As a metallurgical Engineer, you got the basics spot on 💯

what about Big Iron ?

Iron is iron

10 years ago i used to work in a foundry, i worked with pig iron and all other forms of iron. It was the best job i ever had.Brought back so much memories ❤

Now I'm all set.

They are children from the same parents

Thanks for producing and sharing this great information!

Wonder where stainless steel fits in there?

Thanks, Master Blacksmith here. Next time someone asks me this I’m gonna point them to this video. Easy for everyone to understand. You even threw in history on some of the terms 😊

You might have added the melting points of wrought iron and cast iron and steel and the relative, respective tensile strength. A comparison of wrought iron with bronze for the same properties would be interesting

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Excellent video! If you do more videos, PLEASE get your script EDITED for Accuracy in the use of the American-English language. Thanks!

…And Bog Iron! Uses a bio-chemical process to ‘form’ .

I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna use this knowledge for but meh I'm gonna fucking learn it.

Hopefully you can get a better translator and copy editor to correct the many grammatical and spelling errors.

Great presentation! I learned a lot. Thanks.

Great video.

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Iron in the 4th most abundant element in the Earth's crust. When considering the entire planet, it is the most abundant element.

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This is exceedingly good overview. Thank you.

pig iron cast iron wrought iron and steel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about taconite? Iron ore was mined out of northern Minnesota, and shipped to the steel mills as taconite pellets. How does is differ from pig iron?

Ok I got a question for you Metal Heads. Iron Meteorites are made from, what Meteor Heads call, high grade nickel steel. Something never found on Earth. So how was it made, a star blowing up, or a chunk of rock melting before landing on Earth, or some other way my no head, lol, hasn’t thought of.

What is the "coke" he refers to???

There is also extremely pure iron 99.99% pure that has been found in a tool found embedded in coal when the coal seam was mined. How the tool was embedded in the coal seam, no one knows.
There is also wootz steel, made in India, called Damascus steel because that is where the items made from it were marketed from.

Fun fact: a metal and a gas are technically types of ceramic, not alloys. See tungsten carbide or the topic 'ceramic composition and properties' in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
I'm not an expert in these things so maybe there is more to this but my understanding is that an alloy is a combination of metals not a metal and a gas. Having said that, I'm sure many gases will make their way in no matter what so, like with virtually everything, the facts are probably more nuanced than that.

Pig iron = iron ingot.

It's easy word.

Short & sweet !

I did Materials Engineering as part of an Engineering degree many years ago. The video may be okay as far as it describes some commonly used terms, but it does not even remotely cover the topic of what iron and steel is. (Which is a huge topic, by the way, and I can no longer remember much of what I learnt.). Everything that people think is iron or steel is fundamentally a mix of Fe, a compound Fe3C. There will often be additional C and usually small amounts of other metals to give it required properties. Fe3C is a crucial component. Pure Fe (without any C whatsoever) is a substance that most people have never seen (I have only seen it once), is extremely difficult to produce, and can easily be cut with a knife, like sodium in your high school chemistry class. Also, you can’t discuss the topic without explaining Ferrite and Pearlite. Austenite (stainless steel) is also worth a mention.

Hats off to the welder in the pic who said to hell with grinding the paint!

I worked at a steel mill back in the 70 and early 80 , steel has many grades depending on the buyers need, even poored stainless yes l was a molten steel pourer

Thanks for the knowledge.

Mao: Just melt it all together 🤷🏻

OK. Then what about stainless steel? I guess an episode about different type of steel is due now.

Steel is just iron with “stalinium,” from the blood of Joseph Stalin, in it to make it harder. 😂

Thank you. Learned interesting distinctions and cleared up some terms thrown around.

This is the answer to a life long question

Puddling process makes wrought iron. Cast iron is easily differentiated from steel by the form carbon takes. IE., in cast iron carbon is in the form of free graphite whereas in steel carbon is chemically combined with iron in the form of iron carbide Fe3C.

Thanks, I learned this in HS but after 45 years I needed a refresher course!

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Most people consider iron and steel to be the same. Most people in China that is. This must be a video made to educate Chinese people. The rest of us have distinguished iron from steel since the iron age began.