Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry
Bessemer , an English engineer, the inventor of the process.
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- noun
Steel made directly fromcast iron by burning out a portion of thecarbon and otherimpurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through themolten metal .
Etymologies
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Named after Sir Henry Bessemer, the English engineer who invented the process.
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