Is there any way to melt steel without the intense heat of a blast furnace?
So unless you have a large anount of steel in a large oven and meticulous process control including chemical sampling, your product will end up looking like a piece of iron age metal. But if all you want is to see steel melt, any old blowtorch will do the job. The metal at the end of the process will be useless for pretty much any technical purposes, though.
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Iron melts at a very high temperature, so if the goal is to melt it, then there will be a certain amount of intense heat of course. Steel is recycled in a carbon arc furnace. The bottom is lined in graphite. Large graphite rods are lowered into iron scrap and enormous amounts of electricity melt the iron due to the heating of the carbon due to its resistance. The carbon also removes any oxides by forming CO2. Aluminum and lead can also be recycled in this fashion. Ordinary rust can be turned into liquid iron through the use of the thermite reaction. Rust and aluminum power can be ignited with a propane toarch or a magnesium ribbon fuse. The aluminum is oxidized and the rust reduced to molten iron. This reaction is used to spot weld cracks in steel structures, like railroad tracks. It is also a popular arson device used by spies.
