Help with Low Carbon Iron

[CompuTutor]

I agree, wrought iron articles seem to lean
towrds lean carbon content mostly:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/brief-history-wrought-iron.html

"Mild steel has the lowest carbon content of between
.05% and .26% making it quite easy to work with."

I'm bored, I'll poke around a while longer.

[rukiddingme]

@ tak22

Yes, these are getting closer. You are right, I don't really need pure iron, I need the best core material to do what I want to do.

I notice with these materials the higher the permeability, the lower the coercive force.

Are you familiar with any material that has both high permeability and high coercive Force?

I'll give these guys a call next week and see what's up.

^5

[rukiddingme]

@ CompuTutor

I now realize that the material I'm looking for may not be iron. What I need is a material that is high permeability and high coercive Force. This may or may not be iron. Any help rocks. I'm googling like crazy. Thanks.

[CompuTutor]

Well, OK, but to close on the carbon point.

It seems the matrix of the metal itself
holds just as many clues too.

Here are people that mix metal for a living,
they stumbled into a questionable area too.

http://www.foundrymag.com/feature/feature/49752/tracking_gray_iron_machinability_part_1

You never told us why this requirement,
can you share what you need this for?

I mean, even this extended search term
yields About 5,260 results as example:

Low.Carbon High.Permeability High.Coercive.Force

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&newwindow=1&num=100&lr=lang_en&safe=off&q=#num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=Low.Carbon+High.Permeability+High.Coercive.Force

[rukiddingme]

@ CompuTutor

That is a curious article about the hardness of their metals. Very interesting. I found it a bit frustrating that they chart didn't make sense until I realized that the headings for the columns were the same color as the background. Just "control A" and you can see the headings :-)