IN THIS LESSON

Behold! Chemists At Play!

Ahh… chemists in their natural habitat. No surprise they are playing with a teeter-totter, aka a balance beam. Chemists (aka metallurgists without real purpose in their lives) love these things. Balances describe chemical reactions. Let’s see what they are up to, and what it means for balancing the desulfurization reaction between the slag and the steel. …And we introduce a surprise material vital to steelmaking (no, it ain't carbide).

  • Test yourself on this lesson's content:

    1. How is the oxygen level in the steel related to the FeO level in the slag?

    2. Why is it important to achieve a low oxygen level in the melt?

    3. How can a slag conditioner affect the amount of melt deoxidizer used?

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