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40d Talk:Graphite
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All right so it might be a poor furnace fuel to become a fuel... but why can't this be used as a carbon source for steelmaking?GarrieIrons 10:31, 5 July 2008 (EDT)
- Because a flux should also absorb the impurities in the metal or alloy you want to refine. Graphite can't. I think. --Cptnemo01 15:21, 5 July 2008 (EDT)
- The suggestion is to use it as a carbon source in place of charcoal or coke, rather than as a flux. In terms of real-life chemistry I don't see why this shouldn't be possible, but in DF you might need to be able to turn the graphite into bars (as is done with coal) before it can be used in the process. Bryan Derksen 04:40, 6 July 2008 (EDT)