BESSEMER PROCESS

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 I. (noun) 

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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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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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