page_title: Pig iron
hierarchical_section_title: Pig iron
caption_attribution_description: English: Pig Iron ingots Français&#160;: Gueuses de fonte brute Magyar: Nyersvas
context_page_description: Pig Iron is Iron with a high carbon content. Pig iron is made by smelting iron ore into ingot form, in a blast furnace. It’s called pig iron because when being cast, each ingot being cast looks like a Piglet suckling milk from a sow.
context_section_description: Pig Iron is Iron with a high carbon content. Pig iron is made by smelting iron ore into ingot form, in a blast furnace. It’s called pig iron because when being cast, each ingot being cast looks like a Piglet suckling milk from a sow.
caption: Pig iron of a type used to make ductile iron, stored in a bin
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