STEEL PRODUCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steel production mean? 

• STEEL PRODUCTION (noun)
  The noun STEEL PRODUCTION has 1 sense:

1. making steel from pig iron

  Familiarity information: STEEL PRODUCTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEEL PRODUCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Making steel from pig iron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("steel production" is a kind of...):

production (the act or process of producing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steel production"):

Bessemer process (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)

open-hearth process (a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace)

 Context examples 

Chromium hexavalent compounds are used in stainless steel production, in chrome plating, in the manufacture of dyes and pigments, in leather tanning, in wood preservation and are used as corrosion inhibitors.

(Chromium Hexavalent Compound, NCI Thesaurus)

Nickel compounds are used in industry for electroplating, nickel-alloy production, stainless steel production, in batteries, in electronics, in the ceramic industry and as catalysts.

(Nickel Compound, NCI Thesaurus)