sponge iron
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sponge iron
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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The bulk of the emission reductions will happen with Midrex's technology when iron ore is reduced to sponge iron, it added.
From Reuters • Oct. 12, 2022
The resulting sponge iron then goes into an electric arc furnace, where it's eventually refined into steel.
From Salon • May 17, 2022
The process uses coke from fossil fuels to extract oxygen from iron ore pellets, leaving a porous iron pellet called sponge iron.
From Salon • May 17, 2022
The $1 billion plant in Corpus Christi opened in October 2016, with an annual capacity of 2 million tonnes of high-quality hot briquetted iron, or sponge iron, a pre-material used in steel production.
From Reuters • Apr. 10, 2022
To make sponge iron, ore is not smelted.
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