Pig iron

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Pig iron

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Uses
Make steel at smelter Construction
Graphic
No graphic.
Recipe
1 Iron bar 1 Flux stone 1 Coal bar
Properties
Material value 10 Fire-safe Magma-safe Melting point 12106 °U Boiling point 13968 °U Ignition point none Solid density 7850 Liquid density 6980 Specific heat 500
Wikipedia article

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Pig iron bars can be created at a smelter by a dwarf with the furnace operating labor activated.

The recipe for pig iron is: one iron bar, one flux material and one fuel create one pig iron bar. Note that this fuel is part of the reaction. You will need another item of fuel (coke or charcoal, but not wood) to heat the smelter unless you're using a magma smelter.

Pig iron is mainly used as a component in the manufacture of steel but can also be used for buildings and constructions that allow bars and have no restrictions on what type of bars to use; however, it cannot be used to make any other products. Dwarves can have a preference for pig iron and will be happier in a room whose floors and walls are made of it. Keeping a few spare pig iron bars may be marginally useful for strange moods.

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After years of extensive dwarven research, scientists have concluded that no, pig iron is not related to pigs in any way, and is therefore impossible to craft into ☼steel bacon☼.

"Pig iron" in other Languages Dwarven: thuveg datan Elven: sano icori Goblin: dul dusna Human: pum uzin

In real life

Pig iron is a high-carbon iron that is an intermediate product in the production of wrought iron as well as steel. It is very brittle and thus, as in Dwarf Fortress, only marginally useful except as a step towards better materials. Its name comes from the traditional shape of pig iron castings, consisting of a central runner with ingots on each side at right angles, resembling a sow suckling a litter of piglets.

Pig iron in a display case.

Raws

[INORGANIC:PIG_IRON] [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:METAL_TEMPLATE] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:pig iron] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:molten pig iron] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling pig iron] [DISPLAY_COLOR:0:7:1] [BUILD_COLOR:0:7:1] [MATERIAL_VALUE:10] [SPEC_HEAT:500] [MELTING_POINT:12106] [BOILING_POINT:13968] [SOLID_DENSITY:7850] [LIQUID_DENSITY:6980] [MOLAR_MASS:55845] [IMPACT_YIELD:455000] [IMPACT_FRACTURE:700000] [IMPACT_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:268] [COMPRESSIVE_YIELD:455000] [COMPRESSIVE_FRACTURE:700000] [COMPRESSIVE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:268] [TENSILE_YIELD:130000] [TENSILE_FRACTURE:200000] [TENSILE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:62] [TORSION_YIELD:130000] [TORSION_FRACTURE:200000] [TORSION_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:159] [SHEAR_YIELD:130000] [SHEAR_FRACTURE:200000] [SHEAR_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:159] [BENDING_YIELD:130000] [BENDING_FRACTURE:200000] [BENDING_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:62] [MAX_EDGE:10000] [STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:TAUPE_GRAY]

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