STEEL PRODUCTION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Making steel from pig iron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("steel production" is a kind of...):

production (the act or process of producing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steel production"):

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)

open-hearth process (a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace)

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