It is carbon (in the form of coke) that is added to blast furnaces to reduce iron oxide and recover the iron. This is the usual explanation, though most believe that it is the action of carbon...
Rust is the common name for a very common compound, iron oxide. Iron oxide, the chemical Fe2O3, is common because iron combines very readily with oxygen -- so readily, in fact, that pure iron is only...
Using a blast furnace. Iron ore is poured into a blast furnace which is heated to several thousand degrees Celsius, carbon is added to react with the oxygen and form carbon dioxide, other elements...