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BESSEMER PROCESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("Bessemer process" is a kind 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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