4. Wrought iron is the purest form of iron. Write a reaction used for the preparation of wrought iron from cast iron. How can the impurities of sulfur, silicon and phosphorus be removed from cast iron?
4. Wrought iron is the purest form of iron. Write a reaction used for the preparation of wrought iron from cast iron. How can the impurities of sulfur, silicon and phosphorus be removed from cast iron?
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4. Iron oxides are mixed with limestone and coke in order to decompose carbonates and oxidize sulfides. This mixture is then fed into the blast furnace. Many reactions take place in different temperature ranges of the blast furnace. By oxidizing impurities from cast iron in a reverberatory furnace which is lined by hematite, wrought iron or malleable iron is obtained. This is the purest form of commercial iron. This can be shown with the following reaction:
Fe2O3 + 3C → 2Fe + 3CO.
Sulfur, silicone and phosphorus are oxidized and passed into the slag and removed as impurities when limestone is added as a flux to it.
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