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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Elements of Steel

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site, which contains both an interactive activity and illustrated text, looks at the composition of different types of steel and their impact on technology.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Iron, Steel, and Invar

For Students 4th - 8th
Read about the history of iron use and the many applications of steel in modern life. Learn about how iron is extracted from ore, how steel is made, and the invention of invar, an iron-nickel alloy, by physicist Charles Edouard Guillaume.