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Mini steel plants use ______ for smelting iron ore.

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Mini steel plants use ______ for smelting iron ore.

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  • Blast furnace

  • Electric furnace

  • Nuclear furnace

  • Gas Furnace

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Solution

Mini steel plants use electric furnaces for smelting iron ore.

Explanation:

Mini steel plants are decentralised, small-scale production operations that melt raw materials using electric arc furnaces or induction furnaces. Unlike large integrated steel plants, which rely on vast blast furnaces powered by coking coal, micro steel plants use electricity to convert steel scrap and sponge iron into mild or alloy steel.

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Chapter 14: Industries in India Part II - Mineral-Based Industries - Exercises [Page 277]

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Austine Vas, Hemant M. Pednekar, Vidhya Malar Geography Our Earth [English] Class 10 ICSE
Chapter 14 Industries in India Part II - Mineral-Based Industries
Exercises | Q I. 8. | Page 277
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