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bessemer process

noun /bɛsəmərprɑsɛs/ 4 syllables 16 letters Scrabble 23 WWF 27
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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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