Notes On Extraction Of Iron From Its Oxides - CBSE Class ...
It is called pig iron. Pig iron is melted with scrap iron and coke in the presence of hot air to form cast iron, which contains only 3% carbon. Cast iron is heated in a reverberatory furnace lined with haematite, which oxidises carbon to carbon monoxide to get wrought iron or malleable iron, the purest form of iron. Fe 2 O 3 + 3C → 2Fe + 3CO