How do they ensure the quality of steel made from scrap metal?

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There’s literally everything in scrap metal, aren’t there compounds that will worsen the quality of the steel produced?

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The thing is that it does worsen the quality of steel to an extent but every metal has a different melting point. So if you heat scrap metal to a temperature a little bit below the melting point of steel, you can remove low melting point impurities, and after if you raise the temperature to the melting point of steel you will be left with melted bits of the closest thing to purified steel you can easily obtain from scrap metal.

At least that’s the less industrial more in the garage method