dephosphorize

present singular third person dephosphorizes · participle present dephosphorizing · participle past dephosphorized · past dephosphorized

1. chemistryTo free from phosphorus.

   Not less than three furnaces should be employed; two to superheat, desiliconize, partially dephosphorize, and decarbonize.

   1897, John R. Dunlap, Industrial Management: The Engineering Magazine, page 1025

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   It is also proposed to dephosphorize molten metal direct from the blast furnace as before described, then running it minus the slag into an open hearth, and there desiliconizing it down to .025, and then withdrawing the dephosphorized metal and running it into pigs.

   1882, Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, Transactions, page 183

   […] yet I wish to point out that we can simplify the matter considerably by discriminating between slags which actively dephosphorize and those which are simply retentive of phosphorus, or in short, into the dephosphorizing and the nondephosphorizing on one hand, and the retentive and the irretentive on the other.

   1910, Richard Pennefather Rothwell, Joseph Struthers, David Hale Newland, Edward K. Judd, Walter Renton Ingalls, editors, The Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Technology, and Trade During 1909, volume 18, page 443