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- noun The making of
iron (from an ore)
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Examples
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The contrast between the murky atmosphere and continued roar of the ironmaking country, and the silence of the deer-haunted green glades is most striking, and most grateful to eye and ear.
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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Having succeeded in producing high-purity iron nuggets in a next-generation ironmaking process, technology mainly in emerging economies, where ...
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Having succeeded in producing high-purity iron nuggets in a next-generation ironmaking process,
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She said the idling of the cold mills in addition to the steelmaking and ironmaking furnaces, as well as the slab caster and hot strip mill, puts about 1,900 Severstal Wheeling employees on layoff.
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She said the idling of the cold mills in addition to the steelmaking and ironmaking furnaces, as well as the slab caster and hot strip mill, puts about 1,900 Severstal Wheeling employees on layoff.
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Worldwide blastfurnace ironmaking is expected to be down by just 5 percent, year on year.
R&D Mag - News 2009
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This caster project is the latest in a series of orders received from JSW Steel, including the supply of two Corex ironmaking plants, a new continuous caster as well as the upgrading of a hot-strip mill currently in progress to increase productivity and improve strip quality.
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With scrap prices low, the EAF could be a cost-efficient way to make steel when iron ore and other feedstocks for ironmaking in the blast furnaces are used up.
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The ironmaking blast furnace and the basic oxygen furnace, which converts iron into steel, have been shut down since Russian steelmaker Severstal's North American division became the plant's owner through its acquisition of Esmark in August.
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Coke, a specially treated coal product, is used in the ironmaking reaction in blast furnaces.
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