Bessemer process
English
editEtymology
editNamed after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856.
Noun
editBessemer process (plural Bessemer processes)
- (metallurgy, historical) The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation.