We obtained aluminum powder by filing down old soda cans. We chose to use iron(III) oxide, or Fe 2 O 3, known more commonly as rust. We got rust off an old corrugated iron shed at the sawmill.

It is so hot in the blast furnace that carbon monoxide is the reducing agent which reduces the iron(III) oxide. The equation for the reduction of iron(III) oxide in the blast furnace is: ...

In the blast furnace, it is so hot that carbon monoxide can be used, in place of carbon, to reduce the iron(III) oxide: iron(III) oxide + carbon monoxide → iron + carbon dioxide The blast ...