- Author
- Loose, John Ward Willson.
- Date of Publication
- 1982
using high-sulphur content coke." Anthracite and charcoal iron, because
they were purer and less brittle, were preferred by foundries. Much of this
objection to coke pig iron was removed after 1865; by 1872 more than one-
third of the pig iron manufactured in the United States was smelted in coke