Material science

Types of metals
The metals is of two types:
1 Ferrous metal

2 Non-ferrous metal

1 Ferrous metals : The metals that contains major part of iron and contain carbon are called ferrous metals such as pig iron, mild steel, nickel etc., they have iron properties such as rusting, magnetizations etc.
2 Non-ferrous metals : The metals that do not contains iron or carbon and do not have the property of iron are called non-ferrous metals such as copper, aluminum etc.

IRON AND STEEL
The ferrous metals are iron base metals which include all varieties of iron and steel. Most common engineering materials are ferrous materials which are alloys of iron. Ferrous means iron. Iron is the name given to pure ferrite Fe, as well as to fused mixtures of this
ferrite with large amount of carbon (may be 1.8%), these mixtures are known as pig iron and cast iron. Primarily pig iron is produced from the iron ore in the blast furnace from which cast iron, wrought iron and steel can be produced.

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