Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bessemer_process

1 sense of bessemer process

Sense 1
Bessemer process -- (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)
       => industrial process -- (a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something)
       => steel production -- (making steel from pig iron)