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
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In both the Acid Bessemer and Basic Bessemerprocesses molten pig iron is refined by blowing air through it in an egg-shaped vessel, known as a converter, of 15-25 tonnes capacity.
The Bessemer process for converting iron to steel was an invention of enormous importance because it led to many significant changes in industrial processes.