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What is the Steel melting point?

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βˆ™ 6y ago

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It depends on the type of steel. Steel is not one particular thing, there are different steels for different purposes.

Between 1100 - 1300 ºC

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It melts at about 1300-1500 °C (2400 °F). The boiling point is probable at

3 000 0C. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon (and perhaps some other elements), and so its boiling point is not the same as iron. Most steel has other metals added to "tune" its properties, like strength, corrosion resistance, or ease of fabrication. Steel is just the element iron that has been processed to control the amount of carbon in it. Iron that is taken out of the ground, melts at around 1510 degrees C (2750°F). Steel often melts at around 1370 degrees C (2500°F). depends on the alloy of steel, but usually at around 2500°F is the melting point

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What kind of steel are you talking about? Steel is "polluted iron". Just as adding salt or alcohol or ethylene glycol to water allows it to remain liquid at lower temperatures, adding different materials to steel will depress the melting point. Fairly pure iron melts at about 1550 degrees C. Fairly pure chromium melts at about 1630 degrees C. Fairly pure aluminum melts at about 770 You're not likely to run into any of those; airplanes, for instance, are not made of aluminum, but of aluminum alloys. Alloys melt at lower temperatures, but depending on what they are alloyed with, they may be stronger, more durable, more malleable, more machinable, or have other more desirable features. Stainless 18-8 melts at about 1380 Hard steel melts at about 1370 Inconel steel melts at about 1350 Monel melts at about 1320 Talk to your supplier in order to get specifications for what you want, because each mill produces a different product.

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βˆ™ 13y ago

The boiling point is 1300 degrees

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ABOUT 2000 degrees Fahrenheit

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