what is iron made up of and how is it made . thanks for your help! )
it's made of iron. Iron is an element (Fe). It is made in a blast furnace which reduces Iron Oxide with Coke (Pure form of coal)
Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe. A silvery-white, lustrous, malleable, ductile, magnetic or magnetizable, metallic element occurring abundantly in combined forms, notably in hematite, limonite,magnetite, and taconite, and used alloyed in a wide range of important structural materials. Atomic number 26; and atomic weight 55.845; melting point 1,535 C; boiling point 2,750 C; specific gravity 7.874 (at 20 C); valence 2, 3, 4, 6. Iron is the fourth most abundant element in the crust of the Earth (5%). It is a malleable, tough siver-gray, magnetic metal. The four stable, naturally occuring isotopes have masses of 54, 56, 57, and 58. Iron is group 8 and period 4 metal. The two main ores are hematite, and limonite. Pyrites, and chromite are mined as ores for sulfur and chromium, respectively. Iron is found in many other minerals, and it occurs in groundwaters and in the red hemoglobin of blood. Iron and nickel are notable for being the final elements produced by stellar nucleosynthesis, and thus are the heaviest elements which do not require a red giant or supernova for formation. Therefore the most abundant metals in metallic meteorite and in the dense-metal cores of planets such as Earth. It is one of the few ferromagnetic elements. Iron is a metal extracted from iron ore, and is almost never found in the free element state. Iron is the main component of steel, and it is used in the production of alloys or solid solutions of various metals, as well as some non-metals, particularly carbon.
