In Jamshedpur men in thick denim shirts and hard hats watch as molten steel is poured from a gigantic ladle.

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Continuous casting is a process whereby molten steel is passed continuously through a mould, like play-dough, allowing high quality products to be manufactured at greater lengths than traditional casting.

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There are even a few craftsmen who can still fashion a pair of scissors the old way, bashing the molten steel and iron together entirely by hand, and a few of those techniques have been retained in some of the modern-day factory-made products.

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It would take cold, hard steel, made from hot molten iron.

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The molten iron from the furnace will be converted into steel for a wide range of customers, including those in the construction, automotive, lifting and excavating, domestic appliances and packaging.

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These are made by injecting molten aluminum into 3, 000-pound molds made out of steel.

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Their model consists of two concentric steel cylinders, three metres high and 80 centimetres in diameter, filled with molten sodium.

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To watch it, you must steel yourself for baby-stabbing, as well as rat torture and murder by molten gold.

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