Wrought Iron Gate with Stone Faceplate
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Wrought iron is a very pure form of commercial iron, having a very small carbon content. It is tough, malleable, ductile and can be easily welded. However, it is too soft to make blades and swords. When formed into bars, it is known as “bar iron”. Wrought iron has been used for thousands of years, and represents the “iron” that is referred to throughout history.
Wrought iron was originally produced by a variety of methods today known as a bloomery. Bloomeries used charcoal-heated smelters, typically in the form of small pots or ladles, into which the ore was poured and then covered with a thin layer of charcoal. Air was blown onto the charcoal after lighting it on fire. The heat produced would melt the ore. As the ore melted it would be reduced (ore is iron oxide, or rust), mixing with the charcoal to release carbon dioxide. This way little carbon entered the iron directly.
In a bloomery, the fire does not get hot enough to melt the iron completely, so you are left with a spongy mass containing iron and silicates from the ore; this is iron bloom from which the technique gets its name. The bloom was then mechanically worked to break off the masses of slag and impurities. This process gives rise to the name “wrought”, as the iron was pounded, twisted, and folded. As a result of this process, many strands of slag are mixed into the metal. These slag inclusions give it a “grain” like wood, and distinct look when etched. Also due to the slag, it has a fibrous look when broken or bent past its failure point.
The fibers of wrought iron give it some interesting properties, however. Hammering a piece of wrought iron cold causes the fibers to become packed tighter, which makes the iron both brittle and hard. As wrought iron lacks the carbon content necessary for tempering, it is believed that cultures that never discovered how to make steel would cold work wrought iron tools in order to harden them.
The introduction of the much less expensive coke for use with the blast furnace by Abraham Darby I in 1709 changed ironmaking and replaced charcoal. Not only was the fuel much cheaper, but it also could be burned in a “lump” instead of a thin sheet, allowing the furnaces to be much larger. Soon iron prices were dropping rapidly as production shot up.
However the product of a blast furnace, pig iron, had a very high carbon content and was very brittle. In order to use it in ironmongery, it had to first be converted to a form similar to what the bloom/wrought process produced. This process took time to develop, but by the 1750s a number of oxides had been identified that would react with the excess carbon to produce carbon dioxide, which bubbles out.
Ornamental ironwork is often referred to as “wrought iron,” even though today it is more likely to be made from mild steel.
Word Origin: The word “wrought” is the old past tense of the verb to work. As irregular past-tense forms in English have historically been phased out over long periods of time, wrought became worked. Wrought iron literally means Worked iron.
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