WROUGHT IRON

PROPERTIES

• A mass of soft, ductile, fibrous variety of pure iron surrounded by slag.
• Less than .1% carbon, and 1–2% slag.
• Popular during the European ages.
• Produced by a variety of smelting processes called "bloomeries".
• There of many more shapes of iron.

ELEMENTS AND MAKE-UP

• Elements- iron, carbon, maganese, sulfur, silicon, and phosphorous.
• Iron is 99-99.8% of the weight, carbon is 0.05-0.25% weight.
• Maganese is 0.01-0.1%, sulfur is 0.02-0.1% weight.
• Phosphorous is 0.02-0.5%, silicon is 0.02-0.2% weight.
• Many items in this world are made up of wrought iron.

INTERSTATIAL

• Wrought iron is interstitial.
• This is because of its low melting point.
• Carbon is the primary alloying element.

ORIGINS OF THE ALLOY

• Found in the 17th-19th centuries.
• Dates back to Egypt and Mesopotamia.
• In the middle east, and Greece in 1000 B.C..
• Then throughout Europe in the 5th century B.C..
• Its the iron that is referred to throughout history.

INTERESTING FACTS

• It is no longer produced on a commercial scale .
• Wrought means worked so it literally means worked iron.
• Its first production was called bloomeries.
• To for it is charged with charcoal and iron ore then lit to form.

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• This is the layout of a iron atom.
• You have to add an extra carbon atom for wrought iron.

USES IN THE WORLD

• Used on fences, gates, and furniture.
• Also, the Eiffel tower ,in Paris, France, is made of puddled iron.
• Puddled iron is another term for wrought iron.
• The reason for its many uses is because of its ease to manufacture in large sums.
• The reason its production was stopped is because of the time required to make it.

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