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bessemerize

bessemerize verb: to convert iron to steel by the Bessemer process.

Verb

bessemerize (third-person singular simple present bessemerizes, present participle bessemerizing, simple past and past participle bessemerized)

  1. To convert iron to steel by the Bessemer process.

Forms of bessemerize

third-person singular presentbessemerizes
present participlebessemerizing
past participlebessemerized
pastbessemerized

Origin of bessemerize

From Bessemer + -ize.

Words formed from bessemerize

Questions about bessemerize

What does bessemerize mean?
Bessemerize means to convert iron to steel by the Bessemer process.
What part of speech is bessemerize?
Bessemerize is a verb.
What is the past tense of bessemerize?
The past tense of bessemerize is bessemerized.

Words near bessemerize in the dictionary

  1. Bessemer processes
  2. Bessemer steel
  3. Bessemer steels
  4. bessemerisation
  5. bessemerization
  6. bessemerize
  7. bessemerized
  8. bessemerizes
  9. bessemerizing
  10. Bessent
  11. Bessents

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