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It's not. PIG iron from the blast furnace is treated further to produce steel. Cast iron is a product made from only iron, like a cast iron frying pan. When they make a cast iron frying pan, it's ready to be sold and used. Pig iron is sent to steel mills and converted to steel.

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Because that is where the iron comes from that the blast furnace extracts.

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