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The 29 pages that link to Blast furnace, each with the reason it gives.

• RefractoryBroader topic: Its hearth and walls use refractory linings exposed to intense heat and ironmaking slags.

• SmeltingBroader topic: It is a major industrial design for carrying out iron smelting.

• Steel industryBroader topic: The dominant integrated route begins by making pig iron in this furnace.

• Iron smeltingBroader topic: Its high temperatures and carbon-rich conditions produce liquid iron rather than a solid bloom.

• Reducing agentBroader topic: Carbon monoxide reduces iron oxides to metallic iron during smelting.

• IronmakingBroader topic: This is the dominant integrated route from iron ore to hot metal.

• IronworkingBroader topic: It enabled large-scale production of liquid iron from ore.

• JamshedpurBroader topic: It is a key installation in the integrated steelworks at Jamshedpur.

• MagnitogorskBroader topic: Blast furnaces turn the plant’s ore and coke into molten iron.

• RedoxBroader topic: Iron production depends on reducing iron oxides to metallic iron.