HyperDic: bessemer_process

English > 1 sense of the expression Bessemer process:
NOUNprocessBessemer processan industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities
English > Bessemer process: 1 sense > noun 1, process
MeaningAn 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.
Broaderindustrial processA systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something
steel productionmaking steel from pig iron
CatalanProcés Bessemer

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