Answer all of the following questions in point form:
Part 1 – Definitions and Introduction to Metals
Use internet resources (wikipedia, etc.) and search engines (google, etc.) to:
1A. Define the following:
1. Ferrous metals:
2. Non-ferrous metals:
3. Alloy:
1B. Answer the following:
1. What is the difference between iron and steel?
2. What is the effect of carbon content on steel?
3. What is the approximate carbon content of each of the following:
a. Mild steel:
b. Medium carbon steel:
c. High carbon steel:
4. What is special about stainless steel?
5. What is Tungsten Carbide used for?
6. What is Tool Steel? What materials are alloyed with it?
7. What is High Speed Steel? What materials are alloyed with it?
8. Give 3 examples of non-ferrous metals.
Part 2 – Steel production
Using the following resource, answer the questions in point form:
http://www.uksteel.org.uk/stmake.htm
Read the introduction, then click on the “diagram” link. Look at the diagram, then click the following areas of the diagram to answer each set of questions:
2A - Blast furnace – molten iron diagram
1. What are the raw materials for producing molten iron?
2. What does the carbonization process produce?
3. What happens in the blast furnace?
4. Where do the impurities from the iron ore go?
5. What is the carbon content of the iron leaving the blast furnace?
2B -Basic oxygen vessel diagram
1. What is the result of blowing oxygen through the molten iron?
2C - Secondary steelmaking diagram
1. What is the objective of secondary steelmaking?
