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[2004-06-01 03:38:50 +0000 UTC]
"Emma"
(New Zealand)
# Statistics
Favourites: 0; Deviations: 1; Watchers: 5
Watching: 4; Pageviews: 3131; Comments Made: 90; Friends: 4
# Comments
Comments: 41
Pig iron is raw iron, the immediate product of smelting iron ore with coke and limestone in a blast furnace. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 4-5%, which makes it very brittle and not very useful directly as a material.
Pig iron is typically poured directly out of the bottom of the blast furnace into pots to form ingots. The ingots are then used to produce wrought iron or steel, typically with a Bessemer converter or basic oxygen furnace, by burning off the excess carbon in a controlled fashion.
The traditional shape of the molds used for these ingots was a branching structure, formed in sand, with many individual ingots at right angles to a central channel or runner, bearing some similarity in appearance to a litter of piglets suckling on a sow. When the metal had cooled and hardened, the smaller ingots (the pigs) were simply broken from the much thinner runner (the sow), hence the name pig iron. As pig iron is intended for remelting, the uneven size of the ingots and inclusion of a little sand was unimportant compared to the ease of casting and of handling. Modern steel mills, equipped as they are with large cranes, either cast large single ingots or transfer the molten iron to a ladle for immediate use as molten metal.
Cast iron is made by remelting pig iron, often along with substantial quantities of scrap iron, and taking various steps to remove undesirable contaminants and adjust the carbon content.
The Chinese were making pig iron by the later Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC). In Europe, the process did not become common until the 14th century.
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You are a part of my random click tour
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I tagged you in my journal dear ... you must now make a journal with 20 facts about yourself ... I did it - I scare myself sometimes.
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YOU'VE BEEN HUGGED!
Spread the DA love around man!
*dingding* RULES:
1- You can, and should, hug the person who hugged you!
2- You can't hug the person more than once
3- You MUST hug atleast 6 other people
4- You should hug them in public! Paste it on their user page! C'mon...don't be scared of public displays of affection! (remember, public displays of affection mean less chance of lawsuits)
5- Random hugs are perfectly okay! (and pretty swell if you ask me)
6- You should most definitly get started hugging right away! Six hugs a day are equal to a full upper body work out - hug twelve people, and that's an entire body.
P.S. Hey! Try some random people to spread more of the DA love around - because as we know, randomness = community spirit ... and we all love community spirit (the community frowns down upon those who don't).
Have a nice day
NB: New, improved YOU'VE BEEN HUGGED: Now with grammar.
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I'm awfully sad - I lost my phone somewhere in the all encompassing but beauteous snow. So if you need me you'll have to find an alternative method of reaching me ... snow signals maybe
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( I couldn't find a ghost, so I settled for the scariest picture I could find )
I thought you my miss me, so I decided to come and say hello ( and scare you too, just so you wouldn't forget me for a while ... you wouldn't forget the girl who gave you a heart attack would you? No
So yes, hello Dear
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Hey there. Finally bothered to log on my account....what was I going to say?... so how are you? 
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I'm well, went to Northlands with Janelle Karen and Julia after school today and got home at about 10...I love that emoticon I've wanted to use it for so long but now I see I don't need a reason and I can simply use it because it is wonderful! Do you have any plans for the weekend? I'm going for a long awaited haircut, doing homework and sleeping. See you later squirt.
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Ah, I had a haircut last weekend..just to tidy my hair up , nothing drastic. This weekend is the formal (waoh!) lol, I'll stop. We finally got back our photography marks. No idea what you got though sorry 
Are you going to colour your hair..? most people are, I can't be bothered though. hmm...
Seeya later Emma-nator (*sob* I'm no squirt
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Mmmm yess the formal which is costing me..and Mum..Mum and I..a fair bit of money so it HAS to be good! I went to the hairdressers with Mum after school yesterday because she got a haircut, and i'm booked for an appointmnet to get a few foils...perhaps red...and a style if at all achievable with this haricut..on Saturday I mean. I certainly know what I got for photography now! 
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Ah, the shots were fun. We basically got pierced for free 
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My arm is just fine as you well know from talking today. I don't know what art to submit, I have ideas, the formal might see some fabulous shots
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Hmm, any art would be cool. Like photos, or drawings or something fabulous like that
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hey, thanks a lot for the comment on my self-portrait, it wasn't really intended as realist, but i'm glad you thought so, it means it looks more or less like me. *laughs*
and for tomorrow, happy DA anniversary
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Your welcome. I feel a bit invasive suddenly commenting, I hope you don't mind. Do you have so few journals and deviations because you left and came back again? I could have sworn I saw truckloads more of your work on Flow's computer. As for my anniversary here, I hadn't realised AT ALL -stupid- and I feel like muck because I haven't done a single thing so Im working on something...right now! So Thanks for the reminder 
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haha, yep, that'd be today, and yeh, i left and then came back a few months later, that's why i have an unnecessarily large amount of pageviews and relatively little journals and deviations.
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Mmm I did have a nose round of course, alot of messages and things. It's the third today and I have no idea what the time is in Canada, it's a safe bet that I missed your birthday by a mere 24hours but Happy twentieth! If I may rub it in you're getting old..yet newer to me and if I were cool I'd have panited you something or written a poem but I don't have it in me sorry 
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actually i didn't do anything special, other than ordered fish and chips and rented the Incredibles, but i never really do anything for my birthday *shrugs*.
no, i didn't go to the Coldplay concert, the tickets sold out in under a minute *sob* however, it was only a buzz gig, and incidentally, the tickets to the proper gig in August go on sale tomorrow (Sat 4th) at 10am so i'm going to try to get those, it'll make up for the first one.
my regards to lois lane
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Unless you had a particularly good time eating greasys and watching a cartoon film, then that's no way to spend your birthday William..Will, Wilbo? Certainly not Bill unless that name comes with age? Hope not. Anyway birthdays are uber important. What do you mean by a buzz gig? Personally I would be buzzing at any gig of theirs concidering we very rarely have descent musicians tour here. I soso hope you do get the tickets though, and you can tell me about it..briefly anyway! Oh your assistance please, what type of uh deviation, should I first submit? Silly question but i'm indecisive. Hmm regards..not kind regards atleast? Eeh who am I to interfere.
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actually i love Fish and Chips, and the movie was awesome, i never like doing big things on my birthday, i'm not a party kind of guy. William is good, Will is alright, i don't really go by Wilbo, some people call me English, some call me Weemo, no one calls me Lliam, but i wouldn't mind it but NEVER Bill or Billy. a buzz gig is a small gig that is just to create "buzz" about the new album coming out (on the 6th). they're my second favorite band, and the tickets go on sale in three minutes so i'll have to quickly tell you that you should submit a drawing as your first deviation, *runs off*
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Well I wasn't suggesting you had a huge party, that's going from one extreme to the other, but I wrongly sensed dissapointment when you seemed to shrug it off. I'm yet to see the Incredibles is it worth a watch? My cousin didn't seem to think so but she was off her face in the cinema at the time 
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i'd definately reccomend the Incredibles to you, its fantastic, very funny. yes, Radiohead is my all-time favorite band.
oh, and i SO got Coldplay tickets!!!
sooooo happy
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I'll have to get it out then, actually I might just do that today. So you proved me wrong, you must be extatic! 
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yeah, John Mayer's good, but if you want great bands listen to Radiohead, Coldplay, the Shins or Sigur Ros
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I listen to three out of those four so I'm no doing too bad.
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Sigur Ros the odd one out?
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Truthfully yes, don't tell me..I'm missing out in a big way? You could say that about alot of things.
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meh, missing out but not in a huge way, they're just good.
i got the new Coldplay CD today (x&y) and if you don't have it then you are CERTAINLY missing out
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I'll scope them out sometime. That means i am missing out according to you...but i could buy the CD this friday..?
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yes, do it, do it do it do it.
Fix You is probably one of the best songs i've ever heard by any band
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Alright then! I have $40 and with money left over I wont get the guilts, or regret it I hope. Is Fix You off the album? I'm growing quickly to trust your taste so I hope you're steering me in the right direction. I'm going to ask an average question now, I don't believe I ever have..How are you?
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yeah, Fix You is on it, one of my favorite songs. and i'm glad you trust my judgement when it comes to music, most people i know have come to realise that about me; i know good music.
and i just turned 20
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Bother..bother bother..I haven't got the CD yet, it's a long story but boils down to the fact that I have no money on hand..stupid formal. Because you -are- an all mighty 20 I don't want you to think that i'm a sixteen year-old no-brainer. So..you know one who certainly isn't but because I don't part take it highly thought-provoking discussions with you and have bad spelling it doesn't mean i'm not capable 
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Of course you're going to hear about it, like I could possibly let something as big as Batman's life anniversary go by without mentioning it atleast five or six times. With a side-dish of how many days and hours it's been since I got a word out of him.
See you six and a half hours ago.
(I'm so alternative)
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devious thoughts?: of how utterly pathetic my set-up on this site is, practically non-existant and taking up room, what a waste! well i would like to start being productiove around here. and if i dont, ill hold that against myself dammit!
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Hey Emma!!! its me the amazing but very small Jennifer... tho on here I'm Leila...
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HEY DUDE!!!!! ^_____^ thats a very pretty 2 page views I see
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