Bessemer process
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Bessemer process/ˈbɛsɪmə/
▶noun a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort (a Bessemer converter).
– origin C19: named after the English engineer Sir Henry Bessemer, who developed it.
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