Bessemer process
Definition
Older steel manufacturing method in which air is blown into a furnace at about 1250°C to burn off impurities and convert pig iron produced by a blast furnace. Named after its inventor, the UK engineer Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98), it is the forerunner of the modern basic-oxygen process.
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