IRON AND STEEL
Extracting iron from iron ore using a Blast Furnace. Introduction. The common ores of iron are both iron oxides, and these can be reduced to iron by heating them with carbon in the form of coke. Coke is produced by heating coal in the absence of air. Coke is cheap and provides both the reducing agent for the reaction and also the heat source as you will see below. Iron ores. The most ...