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[ bes-uh-mer ] / ˈbɛs ə mər /
nounSir Henry, 1813–98, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process. a city in central Alabama. Words nearby BessemerBess, Bessarabia, Bessel, Bessel function, Bessel method, Bessemer, Bessemer converter, Bessemer process, Bessemer steel, Bessie, best Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for BessemerIt must have taken no small amount of courage to then present himself in Bessemer the following night. Charles Portis, a Journalist With True Grit|Jay Jennings|September 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST Bessemer, with his steel-mines, as his furnaces at the ore-bank may be termed, was then in the future. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876|Various This hook is to be made out of soft Bessemer steel, which of course is very different from high carbon steel. The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals|Charles Conrad Sleffel A Bessemer converter is actually a big retort with air holes at the bottom where molten iron is purified into steel with air. United States Steel|Arundel Cotter
By mid-1861, on the other hand, Bessemer was beginning to meet with increasing respect from the trade. The Beginnings of Cheap Steel|Philip W. Bishop The Bessemer process makes enormous masses of steel and makes it very cheaply; but it has one fault—it is too quick. Diggers in the Earth|Eva March Tappan
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