What is wrought iron? can u tell me something about carbon steel?

Question

actually i need to know the following things about wrought iron and carbon steel:

1. how are they made

1.1. what are the raw materials, if they manufactured by humans

2. uses

3. the difference b/w them

Answer 1

in forging iron, slag is left over...slicate carbon that sparks away and drips from the crucible as the iron becomes seperated from the raw ore

..the separation produces a strong product, low in carbon, easily welded

...as carbon elements rise in the refining process, the resulting steel becomes harder and stronger

....in 'wrought iron' that silcate slag is gathered and added back to left over forged iron....intending the use to be long lasting, but not flexible iron, used as gates and fences

.....carbon steel however, is high in carbon products and therefore more difficult to weld.....

...carbon is the main difference betwee wrought iron and steel....also some copper and manganese are added to steel, for specially malliable purposes

Answer 2

Wrought iron is pure iron, it has little or no carbon or any other elements in it.  It is produced through various techniques, most of which require the melting down of iron ore and collecting the pure droplets of iron that form from doing this.  Lots of hardware like rivets and chains to decorative pieces are made of wrought iron.

Carbon steel is a type of steel where the only main additive is carbon.  In most types of steel you would see various other elements added to enhance its properties, but with carbon steel only carbon is added primarily to increase the steel's strength and hardness.  Carbon steel comes in various grades depending on the carbon content.  This is because the change in the steel's properties with different levels of carbon.  Like other steels it is made through the same process of melting down iron and mixing the alloy, but with carbon primarily added.  This is used for all sorts of applications including piping and fittings (elbows, flanges, etc.).

Answer 3

Wrought iron is commercially pure iron. In contrast to steel, it has a very low carbon content.

Examples of items that used to be produced from wrought iron include: rivets, chains, railway couplings, water and steam pipes, raw material for manufacturing of steel, nuts, bolts, horseshoes, handrails, straps for timber roof trusses, boiler tubes, and ornamental ironwork

Carbon steel, also called plain carbon steel, is steel where the only main alloying constituent is carbon; the other elements present are in quantities too small to affect the properties. The only other elements allowed in carbon steel are: manganese (1.65% max), silicon (0.60% max), and copper (0.60% max).[1] The term carbon steel may also be used in reference to steel which is not stainless steel; in this use carbon steel may include alloy steels.

Steel with a low carbon content has properties similar to iron. As the carbon content rises, the metal becomes harder and stronger but less ductile and more difficult to weld. In general, higher carbon content lowers the melting point and its temperature resistance. Carbon content influences the yield strength of steel because carbon molecules fit into the interstitial crystal lattice sites of the body-centered cubic arrangement of the iron molecules. The interstitial carbon reduces the mobility of dislocations, which in turn has a hardening effect on the iron. To get dislocations to move, a high enough stress level must be applied in order for the dislocations to "break away". This is because the interstitial carbon atoms cause some of the iron BCC lattice cells to distort.