English Explanatory Dictionary

Bessemer process

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation.

Word forms

Bessemer process Bessemer processes

Etymology

Named after English inventor Henry Bessemer (1813–1898), who took out a patent on the process in 1856.

Derived words

bessemerize bessemerization
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