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Bessemer process

DEFINITIONS OF: Bessemer process

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n an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost

Type of:
industrial process
a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something
steel production
making steel from pig iron
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