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steelify, v.|ˈstiːlɪfaɪ|
[f. steel n. + -ify.]
†1. trans. To add steel to, imbue with the properties of steel. Obs.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 227 In the mean time, very many Clisters of Whey steelified,..were injected, and all in vain.
2. To convert into steel.
1807G. Gregory Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 344/3 Cast iron contains too great a quantity of carbonaceous substance: it may be called steel too much steelified. 1860Repert. Patent Invent. Apr. 305 A..Process for Cementing, Converting, Refining, Strengthening and Steelifying Iron. 1888Jrnl. Frankl. Inst. CXXV. 304 Another process for the formation of steel from iron consists in connecting the mass to be steelified with an electric source.
Hence ˈsteelified ppl. a.; ˈsteelifying vbl. n. (also attrib.); steeˈlifying ppl. a.
1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 262 The time occupied in this steelifying process, is sometimes only minutes instead of hours and days. 1860Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) III. 761 The workman has to judge..of the amount of carbon which he has retained from the pig iron;..if too little, he obtains only a steelified iron. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2365/2 The substitution of phosphorus for carbon as a ‘steelifying agent’. |