MADBOY Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Turning Rust back into Iron_.mp4.mp4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderEx Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Basic thermite reaction.... plenty of videos on that subject already on YT and other places, well known for most of us..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiwanluthiers Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I believe a form of this reaction of how blast furnace make pig iron. All of human technological evolution is literally based on our ability to turn iron oxide back into iron. You could do it using bloomery, but that is extremely time and labor intensive (which is why iron tools used to cost so damn much). Go look it up if you want to know just how much work it takes. Thermite reaction isn't really used to refine iron though, because aluminum didn't really exist in antiquity, and until fairly recently, was more expensive than gold! Besides that it's also not cost effective to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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