Bessemer process

Other forms: Bessemer processes

Definitions of Bessemer process

1. noun

   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