answersLogoWhite

0

How do you get steel?

Updated: 8/10/2023
User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

Best Answer

A generally hard, strong, durable, malleable alloy of iron and carbon, usually containing between 0.2 and 1.5 percent carbon, often with other constituents such as manganese, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, copper, tungsten, cobalt, or silicon, depending on the desired alloy properties, and widely used as a structural material.

from dictionary.com

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

A process for making steel in an electric arc furnace includes providing a molten charge which is a melt composed of a high carbon ferrous metal in the electric arc furnace by one of preparing the melt in the furnace or introducing the melt into the furnace, the high carbon ferrous metal being composed of less than 3% carbon, less than 0.2% silicon, and less than 0.2% manganese, and the melt having a temperature of at least 1375° C.; adding to the molten charge provided in the furnace a solid metallic charge composed of least one material selected from the group consisting of scrap steel, hot briquetted iron, direct reduced iron, and iron ore to provide a charge mixture; refining the charge mixture by melting in the absence of gaseous oxygen to provide a molten steel; and superheating, finishing and tapping the molten steel into a ladle for subsequent casting thereof.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

Steel is just a form of iron that is refined differently to iron in a blast furnace, as it is allowed to have a small amount of carbon and other alloying metals. However other forms of steel such as weathering steel and stainless steel have other metals (chromium, magnesium etc.) added to them to give them the properties that they require for their particular purpose.

This answer is:
User Avatar


User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago

Basic steel contains iron and carbon. They can add other things to it--chromium, vanadium, manganese, molybdenum, and tungsten are popular--but there is always iron and carbon in steel.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

steel is made from iron ores. they melt down the ores purify them and you have steel.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago

Iron and carbon

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: How do you get steel?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Can you weld steel to steel?

Yes, you can weld steel to steel. You can use steel welding rod.


Is a steel nail a metal?

A nail made of steel.


What gauge steel is in a steel garage?

There are many gauge steel in a steel garage. It really depends on the kind of steel garage that you have and what kind of steel that you like to you in that steel garage.


What Are The Types Of Steel?

stainless steel ton steel carbon steel


How you name the different types of steel?

Tool steel. Mild steel. Steel construction. Stainless steel.


Stainless steel grades?

The stainless steel grades includes carbon steel, manganese steel, nickel steel, nickel-chromium steel, and molybdenum steel. The content of carbon in the different steel grades varies.


What songs have steel in the title?

Sun and Steel - Iron Maiden Fistful of Steel - Rage Against the Machine Iron, Steel, Metal - Children of Bodom Steel Rain - Chris Cornell Harder Than Steel - Jag Panzer Made of Steel - Our Lady Peace Templars of Steel - Hammerfall Steel Meets Steel - Hammerfall Steel Meets Steel - Onslaught Steel Tormentor - Helloween Steel Bars - Bob Dylan 100,000 Tons of Steel - Grateful Dead Steel Claw - Tina Turner Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire - Joni Mitchell Glass and Steel - Graham Nash Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot Wheelz of Steel - Outkast


What is low carbon steel and high carbon steel?

Low carbon steel is steel with low carbon. High carbon steel is steel with high carbon


Are stainless steel in-ground pools durable?

steel is steel and there is nothing you can do about it even if it is stainless steel or it i not stainless steel it will rust


What is steel effect?

the steel effect is when steel is melted


Why do steel nails sink?

they are steel, steel sinks


Can you weld steel to stainless steel?

Yep, you can weld steel to stainless and you can weld stainless to steel. You can use steel or stainless welding rod in either case but the steel or steel welding rod will of course rust.