BESSEMER PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bessemer process mean? 

• BESSEMER PROCESS (noun)
  The noun BESSEMER PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BESSEMER PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESSEMER PROCESS (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

Classified under:

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)