Bessemer converter
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n.
A large pear-shaped container in which molten iron is converted to steel by the Bessemer process.
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Meaning #1:
a refractory-lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process
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- steel converter (metallurgy)
- Byers process (metallurgy)
- Thomas converter (metallurgy)
- spiegel
- Bessemer process
- furnace (mechanical device)
- nickel (element, metal – in chemistry)
- Sir Henry Bessemer (British inventor and engineer)
- iron (metal, element – in chemistry)
- blow
- Gilded Age (American history)
- Iron and Steel Industry (American history)
- Pittsburgh: History (city, Pennsylvania)
- Harbison-Walker Refractories Company
