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open-hearth process

noun

  1. a process of steelmaking in which the charge is laid in a furnace open-hearth furnace on a shallow hearth and heated directly by burning gas as well as radiatively by the furnace walls.


open-hearth process

noun

  1. a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of open-hearth process1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

Bessemer's relation to the open-hearth process was very much like Kelly's to the Bessemer process....

Even paper-bagging does not quite match the open-hearth process, though there is the same secret of superiority, namely, cooking things in their own essence by the agency of hot air.

These steels are manufactured very largely by the open-hearth process, although chromium steels are also a crucible product.

Contemporaneous with his development of the open-hearth process, William Siemens introduced the rotary furnace for producing wrought-iron direct from the ore without the need of puddling.

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