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Following the sucessful introduction of the Bessemer process for producing steel, the Siemens process was devised. It can be regarded as an updated and enlarged version of the puddling process but ...
Process by which high quality steel is produced from molten pig iron. Now superseded by other methods, the process was patented by Henry Bessemer is 1856. The molten iron is poured into the 'Bessemer ...
Furnace built like a tower for reducing ore into metal. Can be used as part of non ferrus metal reduction, but is normally associated with iron production. Ore (iron ore for iron production), coke ...
Very early type of furnace for reducing iron ore directly into wrought iron. Product was of poor quality as it was never molten. Slag was generally removed by hammering, but some was inevitably left ...
Most common and generally useful form of steel. Contains 0.3% of carbon.
Iron with a high carbon content (above 2%). Identical, in most cases, to pig iron, it is easily cast to almost any shape and melts at a lower temperature to other type of iron and steel. ...
A furnace (more of a kiln) in which wrought iron bars and charcoal were heated for up to two weeks, until the carbon had been absorbed into the surface of the iron. The resulting blister steel could ...
