Steel

Steel is a product manufactured in a Steelworks. Iron Ore is the material required to make it. It can be used as material for other products.
==History==
Around 1400 BC the inhabitants of Armenia and the Southern Caucasus were already capable of producing welded steel and of covering surfaces with steel. Around 1000 BC the hard material came into use in the Middle East. This steel could be distinguished from ordinary iron by the fact that it contained less than 1.5% but more than 0.3 % carbon. As a result of this, it could be forged more easily. In order to achieve the appropriate carbon ratio, the Palestinians put iron bars into box stoves and heated them with charcoal powder to a temperature of approximately 1,000° C for about a week. In 1574  the term 'cement steel' first appeared in the work 'Test Art' by the German Lazarus Ercker. In 1754 the Englishman Henry Cort developed a steel roller which made traditional manual forging superfluous. Now flat, stick-shaped and profile rods could be manufactured automatically at high speed and in larger quantities. From 1783 on, the stove was replaced by a flaming furnace in which the charcoal was separated from the raw-iron. Later, a melting pot replaced the stove.
==Did You Know That?==
As the hardest, most solid, heat-resistant and stainless material available for construction, steel dominated industry at the turn of the century. Machines, household devices and garden equipment are all now made from this material which is said to be indestructible and unsurpassable. People are now as crazy about steel as their forefathers once were about gold. This hard metal is revolutionizing the construction industry and civil engineering all over the world.
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