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Metal (steel and nonferrous metals)

  Traditionally, large quantities of oxygen have been used in the steel manufacturing.

  Auxiliary combustion of furnace, oxidation for decarbonization and mixing: oxygen, carbon dioxide and argon
  Oxygen enrichment for blast furnaces: oxygen
  Air interception, blow churning: argon and nitrogen
  Purge of piping, equipment and furnace: nitrogen, argon, and helium
  Deoxidization of bright annealing: hydrogen