Pig iron
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“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
~ Pig on on hearing he is to become pig iron
“NO, NOT PIG IRON, ANYTHING BUT PIG IRON”
~ Iron on on hearing he is to become pig iron
Pig Iron is made when pigs and iron are combined.
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[edit] What is Pig Iron?
Pig Iron is made when pigs and iron are combined. There is basically nothing else to put here.
Note that pig iron has nothing similar to regular iron which is less tasty and more irony.
[edit] History of Pig Iron
Pig Iron was discovered in 66 BC, or in the case of Pig Iron fanatics 0. It was created in a bet by Archimedes to some random Syracusan guy in 82 BC or -16 BPI (Before Pig Iron) that the guy could not create a pork scented building material. After 16 years the Random Syracusan guy was successful and forced Archimedes to kill him and steal his idea.
In 5 BC, or 71 API (After Pig Iron), it was used in jails in Judea, Greece, Antioch and Pig hater land as a form of punishment for the peoples there, who either hated pigs or couldn't stop eating them.
With the more popular normal iron, increasing in popularity, pig iron started to decline, and so there was absolutely no market for it.
[edit] How is it formed
Pig iron is formed in a blast furnace using iron ore coke or coal, a few pigs and some calcium carbonate.
The charge of the iron, coke, pigs and limestone are placed in the top of the furnace.
They are then dropped into the furnace at a very high speed where the following occurs:
1. The air and the coke react to form carbon dioxide and then carbon monoxide:
O2 + C → CO2 C0 + C → 2CO
2. This causes the death of the pigs
2CO + pig → death of pig
3. The limestone also decomposes as the speed and temperature work their magic
CaCO3 → CaO + CO2
4. The carbon monoxide then reacts with the Iron ore
Fe2O3 + 3CO → 2Fe + 3CO2
5. Finally the Iron reacts with the pig and forms pig iron
2Fe + 2pigs → pigFe (pig iron)
The CaO reacts with the waste in the iron ore and the remains from the pig that isn't used in the reaction to form slag.
The pig iron is then removed from the furnace.
[edit] Where Pig Iron is produced
Pig Iron is made in Whyalla from Iron Ore from Iron Knob and pigs from a piggery owned by some politician.
Because of the lack of demand for pig iron it is made only in Australia.
[edit] Uses of Pig Iron
Pig Iron does not have very many uses, in most cases it is turned into boar steel, which has many more uses then pig iron.
Pig Iron is sometimes used to brand pigs and also to throw at people. It is also used by pigs to make things.
It is also sold to countries as a building material for houses that smell and taste like bacon.
[edit] Controversy
Firstly there is the problem with the whole purpose of making it. The market is so minute that more money could be made in Whyalla, Southern part of the Northern Territory by making normal iron.
Secondly there is the problem with using live pigs some people think that it is cruel to use live pigs but only the blood instead. Testing by some people have found that using the blood does not give the pig iron the desired result, it only makes it more brittle then before.
War is expected to break out soon.
Also many people to suffer from pigironitis a desease caused by the excessive consumption of pig iron. If left untreated the disease can lead to rashers, and can become un-ham-dable. In areas where there is pigironitis a hamdemic has lead to an aporkalypse. The best treatment is by a special oinkment made entirely of the rare pig iron plant.
