Hi.If you can help me and if you WILL help me,please help me.?

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Okay.Well.I forgot my social studies book and I missed a question while at school so I have this one question that I have no idea what the answer is.I looked everywhere over the net and couldn't find anything relating to this so please help.Thanks.

The question:In what way do coal and iron ore work together to help produce steel?

The answer:unknown to me.

It is a very interesting question and I really want to know how not just because it was a question that I can not answer but because the answer to it will be something that will definately stick out in my head and make me know more.It's due on Tuesday and I have Social Studies 1st hour.Sucks for me don't it.Please help me if you will and can.Please no mean remarks like do your own homework.This is just one thing I forgot and this is the the first and last time I will ever ask the answer to something on my homework.

Thank you very much and thank you for helping me learn something new to me.We are currently talking about the Chinese coming from China to make the railroads here in the U.S. and sending money back to families still in China.My teacher read us this book and it just opened my mind as to how cruel and racist Americans were.They didn't even give the Chinese, who worked harder then the Americans, equal pay!I know!What jerks!Just letting off steam and letting you know about this.I hope that no American now is as bad as Americans were back then.I'm american by the way and it just shocks me as to how they used to be way back then.

(^Just a little review on what we are learning so far in class so you know that I ain't some lazy student that cheats on my homework.I actually listen in class.The question is on something the teacher hasn't even talked to us about yet which makes no sense to me.I'd rather learn it first,do homework,review homework in class and say the right answers and answers that are incorrect with a reason as to why it is,then take a quiz,then review it,then take the test.The only way I learn is with repetition on important facts.Yup.)

Thanks again for helping me.

Answer 1

There is a ton of info on this subject. You can watch videos on youtube on how steel is made and get an idea on how the process is done. I watched a program on steel on the History channel a while ago. There was something about a flux or something, coke i think it was. Anyway, its a joining that takes place on the molecular level.

Watch these fun videos to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poy58Zo7_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel

Answer 2

Short answer:

Iron ore is mostly Iron oxide (FeO2)

Coal is mostly carbon, C

When combined at high temperature, FeO2+C → CO2 + Fe

This is how iron is produced from iron ore.

Iron is the main ingredient of steel.