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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A method for making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out excess carbon and impurities.
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- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Sir Henry Bessemer.]
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