What is mixed together to make steel?

Answer 1

Iron and carbon.

Depending on the type of steel, be it forged, sheet, razor strip, depends on the amount of carbon present.

The carbon content varies from 0.1% to 2.0% .

For very specialist steels, such as Tungsten steel, or Stainless Steel. Other metals are added; notably Tungsten (Wolfram) for tungsten steel, which is very hard wearing, and chromium and nickel to make stainless steel, which does NOT rust.

Molten Iron from the Blast Furnace is placed in the BOS converter. Here an oxygen lance blows in oxygen to remove or adjust the csrbon, sulphur and phosphorus content. It is at this point the carbon content is adjusted to make the given steel.

Answer 2

Steel is primarily made by combining iron with a small amount of carbon. Other elements such as manganese, silicon, and sometimes nickel or chromium are also added to enhance its properties, depending on the required characteristics of the steel being produced.