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steel production

DEFINITIONS OF: steel production

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n making steel from pig iron

Types:
Bessemer process
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
open-hearth process
a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace
Type of:
production
the act or process of producing something
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