Bessemer process

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.

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Meanings

nounBessemer process (plural Bessemer processes)

plural Bessemer processes

  1. historicalengineeringThe first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation.

Origin

Named after English inventor Henry Bessemer (1813–1898), who took out a patent on the process in 1856.

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