English dictionary
Bessemer process
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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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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
Source: WordNet 3.0