Carbon Process - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: carbon process Page: 2Bessemer steel
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...
Charcoal
Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances esp coal made by charring wood in a kiln retort etc from which air is excluded It is used for fuel and in various mechanical artistic and chemical processes...
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