Serious question - would they still use the molten iron that he fell into?
I’m not a metallurgist, never worked in a foundry. So I have no background to comment.
If I had to guess, any organic material left over would come out in the refining process. Dross, if you will. So it would technically be usable.
But what to tell the family? “Yeah, little Johnny is now part of a bridge in Costa Rica.” Or an engine block of our latest excavator. Or whatever it was used for.
If not, what do you do with that iron? Have a ceremony and bury it? Or dump it in the ocean?
I’d love to hear the end of that story.
Awkward to say the least.
“Serious question - would they still use the molten iron that he fell into?”
Impurities flow to the top of the crucible and it scraped off, it’s called dross and it’s part of the process.
Sadly his physical tissue and bone turned to dross, probably in a couple of seconds.
Sure. He’s now just a bit more slag on the top of the product. Easily removed.
Molten iron is far more dense than human flesh. He could not have fallen into the melt, but rather he fell onto the melt and flashed into flame. There was no quick way to pull his body out so I imagine he completely incinerated.
Whatever remained after combustion would have just been incorporated into the surface slag. The metallurgy of the main mass of iron would have been unaffected.