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Bessemer Steel

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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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bessemer Steel'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/bessemer-steel.html. 1828.
 
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