bessemer : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a refractory-lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process
  

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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
  

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Bes"se*mer steel`

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1. 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.

Webster 1913

• noun British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)
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