No, not the soft drink! In the steel industry, Coke is an exceptionally pure product of coal, with 80 to 90% fixed carbon content, and low volatile, or impure, content; these properties make it ideal as both fuel, and a reducing agent, in blast furnace operation. To produce coke, bituminous coal is dumped from railroad […]
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