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Bessemer process definition

Bes·se·mer process (bes′ə mər)

a method of making steel by blasting air through molten pig iron in a large container (Bessemer converter) to burn away the carbon and other impurities

Etymology: after Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98), Eng engineer who developed it

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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