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connecting the steel mills that make this slag with the places that want to use it. Steel is created by dumping reactive ingredients in a giant pot and making it really, really hot. “When you ...

Working as a tongsman at the mill, his job was to oversee the handling of the hot steel ingots coming from the furnace ... body was consumed by contact with slag. In those cases, an equal weight ...