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STEEL PRODUCTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Making steel from pig iron
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("steel production" is a kind of...):
production (the act or process of producing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steel production"):
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)
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