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← HistoryWhich risk increases when heating bloomery iron during early Chinese salt production?
A)Increased carbon monoxide production exceeds ventilation✓
B)Iron oxidation generates runaway exothermic corrosion
C)Silica slag transforms into more reactive cristobalite
D)Iron grain growth reduces longbow flexibility
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Increased carbon monoxide emission is a risk when poorly ventilated because the incomplete combustion of charcoal in the early refining (bloomery) process produces CO. Therefore, CO poisoning rises, rather than silica transformation, exothermic corrosion, or grain growth, specific risks in other processes.
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