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This founder is making cheaper, cleaner steel

The steel industry isn’t exactly known for innovation. Very little has changed about purifying iron ore since the process was invented and commercialized in the 1850s. The majority of steelmakers melt solid iron ore at dizzyingly high temperatures inside blast furnaces, where the material reacts with gases to trigger chemical reactions that remove oxygen. It…

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The steel industry isn’t exactly known for innovation. Very little has changed about purifying iron ore since the process was invented and commercialized in the 1850s. The majority of steelmakers melt solid iron ore at dizzyingly high temperatures inside blast furnaces, where the material reacts with gases to trigger chemical reactions that remove oxygen. It…

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  1. MIT Technology ReviewPrimary source · Supports · EN · 100%
    This founder is making cheaper, cleaner steel

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Confidence · formula confidence-2.1.0
Source trust73
Independent corroboration51
Primary evidence35
Claim consistency82
Extraction confidence82
Attribution quality90
Impact · formula impact-2.1.0
Event magnitude83
Market relevance88
Entity significance42
Market breadth45
Novelty68
Urgency86
Ranking · formula rank-1.0.0
Confidence factor0.8335
Freshness factor0.9995
Breaking bonus0