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How It's Made Mini-Episodes: Ductile Iron Pipe
Chances are, you use ductile iron pipe every day and don't even know it. City water and sewer pipes are all made from ductile iron. In this minisode of How It's Made, find out how ductile iron pipes are created from mainly recycled metal.
Added: Apr 27, 2011
Views: 7805 Views
Runtime: 05:00
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