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Most_Original_Name t1_jabvg7b wrote

Steel is made from iron. Iron ore is heated in a blast furnace to remove it’s naturally occurring oxygen, coal is added to supply the carbon.

Iron - oxygen + carbon = steel

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georgecoffey OP t1_jac2kpu wrote

Cast iron has carbon + iron, so that can't be it

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