| NOUN | process | 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 |
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| 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. | |
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| Broader | industrial process | A systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something |
| steel production | making steel from pig iron | |
| Catalan | Procés Bessemer | |
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