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    Steel was originally produced in bloomery furnaces for thousands of years. More efficient production began in the 17th century with the introduction of the blast furnace and crucible steel production. This led to the open-hearth furnace and Bessemer process in the mid-19th century, starting a new era of mass-produced steel using mild steel instead of wrought iron. Further refinements like basic oxygen steelmaking largely replaced earlier methods and increased quality while lowering costs. Today, over 1.6 billion tons of steel are produced annually worldwide in various grades.

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    Steel was originally produced in bloomery furnaces for thousands of years. More efficient production began in the 17th century with the introduction of the blast furnace and crucible steel production. This led to the open-hearth furnace and Bessemer process in the mid-19th century, starting a new era of mass-produced steel using mild steel instead of wrought iron. Further refinements like basic oxygen steelmaking largely replaced earlier methods and increased quality while lowering costs. Today, over 1.6 billion tons of steel are produced annually worldwide in various grades.

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    Steel was originally produced in bloomery furnaces for thousands of years. More efficient production began in the 17th century with the introduction of the blast furnace and crucible steel production. This led to the open-hearth furnace and Bessemer process in the mid-19th century, starting a new era of mass-produced steel using mild steel instead of wrought iron. Further refinements like basic oxygen steelmaking largely replaced earlier methods and increased quality while lowering costs. Today, over 1.6 billion tons of steel are produced annually worldwide in various grades.

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    and tensile strength of the resulting steel.

    The increase in steel's strength compared to pure iron is


    possible only by reducing iron's ductility.
    Steel was produced in bloomery furnaces for thousands of years, but its large-scale, industrial use
    began only after more efficient production methods were devised in the 17th century, with the
    introduction of the blast furnace and production of crucible steel. This was followed by the open-
    hearth furnace and then the Bessemer process in England in the mid-19th century. With the
    invention of the Bessemer process, a new era of mass-produced steel began. Mild steel
    replaced wrought iron.
    Further refinements in the process, such as basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS), largely replaced
    earlier methods by further lowering the cost of production and increasing the quality of the final
    product. Today, steel is one of the most common manmade materials in the world, with more than
    1.6 billion tons produced annually. Modern steel is generally identified by various grades defined by
    assorted standards organisations.

    Contents

    • 1Definitions and related materials


    • 2Material properties
    o 2.1Heat treatment
    • 3Steel production
    • 4History of steelmaking
    o 4.1Ancient steel
    o 4.2Wootz steel and Damascus steel
    o 4.3Modern steelmaking
     4.3.1Processes starting from bar iron
     4.3.2Processes starting from pig iron
    • 5Steel industry
    • 6Recycling
    • 7Contemporary steel
    o 7.1Carbon steels
    o 7.2Alloy steels
    o 7.3Standards
    • 8Uses
    o 8.1Historical
    o 8.2Long steel
    o 8.3Flat carbon steel
    o 8.4Weathering steel (COR-TEN)
    o 8.5Stainless steel
    o 8.6Low-background steel
    • 9See also
    • 10References
    o 10.1Bibliography
    • 11Further reading
    • 12External links

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