Molten iron

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'''Molten iron''' is the melted, liquid form of [[iron ore]] that has been smelted by a [[foundry]]. On [[Vulcanus]], molten iron can also be generated by processing [[lava]]. Both methods of generating molten iron require [[calcite]]. Molten iron cannot be placed into [[barrel]]s, so it cannot be sent to other planets.

Once generated, molten iron can be cast into [[iron plate]]s, but it can also be cast directly into [[steel plate]]s as well as a number of other iron derivative. Many, but not all, of these casting recipes are more resource efficient than casting to plate and using an [[assembling machine]] to make the derivative.

A [[fluid wagon]] of molten iron represents more iron plates than a single [[cargo wagon]] can store. Even without [[productivity module]]s, 50,000 molten iron represents 7500 iron plates, nearly twice the storage of a cargo wagon (4000 iron plates). Additionally, even with legendary [[quality]] [[productivity module 3]]s, the 2000 iron ore that fills up a single cargo wagon would only generate 50,000 molten iron, the exact size of a fluid wagon. So fluid wagons always at least as efficient per wagon as ore or plate.

== Alternative recipes ==
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! Process !! Input !! Output !! Machine
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| {{icon|Molten iron from lava}} Molten iron from lava
| {{icon|Time|16}} + {{icon|Lava|500}} + {{icon|Calcite|1}}
| {{icon|Molten iron|250}} + {{icon|Stone|10}}
| {{icon|Foundry|space-age=yes}}
|-
|}

== History ==
{{history|2.0.7|
* Introduced in [[Space Age]]{{SA}} expansion.
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== See also ==
* [[Fluid system]]
* [[Molten copper]]

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