10 Facts About Iron industry

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Iron industry is a common impurity in copper ores and iron ore was sometimes used as a flux, thus it is not surprising that humans mastered the technology of smelted iron only after several millennia of bronze metallurgy.

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Iron industry Age is conventionally defined by the widespread replacement of bronze weapons and tools with those of iron and steel.

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3.

The Iron industry Age began in India about 1200 BC, in Central Europe about 800 BC, and in China about 300 BC.

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4.

Iron industry was originally smelted in bloomeries, furnaces where bellows were used to force air through a pile of iron ore and burning charcoal.

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5.

Iron industry chain was used in Indian suspension bridges as early as the 4th century.

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6.

Iron industry working was introduced to Greece in the late 10th century BC.

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7.

Iron industry technology was further advanced by several inventions in medieval Islam, during the Islamic Golden Age.

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8.

Iron industry'spots were thinner and hence cheaper than those of his rivals.

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9.

Iron industry'sproducts were all of cast iron, though his immediate successors attempted to fine this to bar iron.

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10.

Steel Iron industry is often considered an indicator of economic progress, because of the critical role played by steel in infrastructural and overall economic development.

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