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They are cakes or bricks of iron made from the dust collected in the flues of smelters. The dust is first processed to remove impurities, thus yielding a higher yield of iron content. Then the slurry is dried, binding agents may be added, and it is baked for several hours at up to 2400 degrees. As the material cools sufficiently, it is run through a briquetting machine that compresses it into its final form at pressures of up to 7000 psi. These briquettes can then added into open hearth retorts or blast furnaces in the iron or steel processing, thereby recapturing what was once a waste product.

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