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Steel & Iron Recycled for London 2012

Posted in Industry News on 26th January 2012

With only months to go before the opening ceremony in London, the Olympic Park is almost ready. Built in one of London's most underdeveloped areas at Lower Lea Valley, the park hopes to trigger positivity in the area by providing new transport facilities, employment, housing, a green park and cultural sports facilities.

London won the Games based on their "reduce, reuse, recycle" approach that promotes a greener city, country and world.

The Pressures of Being Iron Oxide

Posted in The World Of Metal on 23rd December 2011

Scientists continue to find out more of what lies 6,000km beneath the surface of the Earth through research and experimentation in laboratories across the world. The Earth's mantle is made up of a solid mixture of magnesium and iron oxide. The electronic link from between the core and mantle is formulate by iron oxide, and affects the magnetic field that we see on the Earth's surface.

Iron oxide is one of the main materials found at the centre of the earth, and research has indicated a change to iron oxide due to extreme pressures of 690,000 times sea level and temperatures of 1,650ºC. This has dramatically changed the way in which the metal conducts electricity, with no change to its structure.