Addition of high proportions of manganese makes steel useful in making rails of rail-roads because manganese

  • A
    Gives hardness to steel
  • B
    Helps the formation of oxides of iron
  • C
    Can remove oxygen and sulphur
  • D
    Both $(a)$ and $(c)$

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