The melting temperature of aluminium is about 580 C (around 1076 F)Try to melt aluminium foil in your own open air fire, using kerosene or petrol burning in open airegroll up some aluminium foil and expose it to open flames from your gas stove, or fire from a pan full of burning kerosene (any hydrocarbon fuel), where the only source of oxygen is open air.Does the aluminium foil melt and start dripping like a liquid?If so, your air fire is hotter than the melting temperature of aluminium (around 580 C, or 1076 F)Go on, try it ! In fact, paper fire burns at Fahrenheit 451 F or about 233 CEven under strong winds, with lots of extra oxygen supplied, air fires rarely get hotter than 600 C, and can barely melt aluminium or glass.Now the melting temperature of steel (iron+carbon) is 1532 C, or 2790 F.Iron can only be melted in a specially designed blast furnace (where lots of extra oxygen is pumped into the furnace), or by using an arc or induction furnace.
