>wrought iron is highly inferior to bronze. What? Wrought iron is immensely more useful than bronze in many applications demanding strength (per weight or per

>wrought iron is highly inferior to bronze. What? Wrought iron is immensely more useful than bronze in many applications demanding strength (per weight or per volume, take your pick) and/or toughness. There's a reason things like metal bridges, railways, etc. all became common only after wrought iron became readily available. Likewise for cast iron, other than malleability it is mechanically superior to bronze. There's a reason the only time you see bronze these days is bushing material and applications demanding corrosion resistance for which aluminum/zinc alloys would be unsuitable.