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Are pig iron and steel synthetic materials?

Are pig iron and steel synthetic materials?

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Synthetic material refers to organic synthetic materials, including only plastic, synthetic fiber, synthetic rubber three broad categories. And pig iron and steel obviously do not belong to these three categories, belong to ferroalloy.
Not belong to synthetic materials, metal materials. It belongs to the alloy is an alloy of iron and carbon, iron carbon content is 2%--4.3%, the carbon content of steel is 0.03%-2%. except carbon, iron also contains silicon, manganese, chromium and nickel in steel containing

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