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noun
The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: engineering, metallurgy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: industrial process, steel production
History
Named after English inventor Henry Bessemer (1813–1898), who took out a patent on the process in 1856.
