steel production

Definitions of steel production

1. noun

   making steel from pig iron
   types:

   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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   production

   the act or process of producing something