- bessemer pig
- noun
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Bessemer iron or Bessemer pig nounPig iron suitable for making Bessemer steel• • •Main Entry: ↑Bessemer
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bessemer iron — noun or bessemer pig Usage: usually capitalized B Etymology: after H. Bessemer : a cast iron that contains not more than 0.10 percent of phosphorus and is suitable for the manufacture of Bessemer steel by the acid process * * * Bessemer iron or… … Useful english dictionary
Bessemer process — [bes′ə mər] n. [after Sir Henry Bessemer (1813 98), Eng engineer who developed it] a method of making steel by blasting air through molten pig iron in a large container (Bessemer converter) to burn away the carbon and other impurities … English World dictionary
Bessemer — in reference to the process for decarbonizing and desiliconizing pig iron by passing air through the molten metal, 1856, named for engineer and inventor Sir Harry Bessemer (1813 1898) who invented it … Etymology dictionary
Bessemer process — The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron. The process is named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1855. The process was… … Wikipedia
Bessemer process — Metall. a process of producing steel, in which impurities are removed by forcing a blast of air through molten iron. [1855 60; after H. BESSEMER] * * * Technique for converting pig iron to steel invented by Henry Bessemer in England in 1856 and… … Universalium
Bessemer , Sir Henry — (1813–1898) British inventor and engineer Bessemer was the son of a mechanical engineer who had fled from the French Revolution. After leaving the village school in Charlton, where he was born, he worked as a type caster, until the family moved… … Scientists
Bessemer converter — n. a special furnace used to purify pig iron using the Bessemer process. Etymology: Sir H. Bessemer, Engl. engineer d. 1898 * * * noun a refractory lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process • Hypernyms: ↑converter … Useful english dictionary
Bessemer Progess — The Bessemer process, which de carbonizes melted pig iron into steel by means of a blast of air, was named after its inventor, Englishman Sir Henry Bessemer (1813 1898). The process was a boon to manufacturing, for it greatly reduced costs of… … Dictionary of eponyms
Bessemer, Sir Henry — born Jan. 19, 1813, Charlton, Hertfordshire, Eng. died March 15, 1898, London British inventor and engineer. Son of a metallurgist, he set up his own casting business at 17. At that time the only iron based construction materials were cast iron… … Universalium
Pig iron — [ thumb|300px|Two pig iron weights for use in a theatrefly system.] [ puddling process of smelting iron ore to make wrought iron from pig iron, the right half of the illustration (not shown) displays men working a blast furnace, Tiangong Kaiwu… … Wikipedia
