basic oxygen process

American  

noun

1. a high-speed method of steelmaking in which oxygen of high purity is blown through an oxygen lance at high velocity onto the surface of a bath containing steel scrap and molten pig iron within a vessel with a basic lining basicoxygenfurnace.

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Example Sentences

Looking at the piles of rubble and scrap, it is hard to imagine that when it opened in 1978, the Basic Oxygen Process Shop No. 2, known as "the BOP shop," was among the most formidable steelmaking facilities in the world.

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So did the "basic oxygen" process of steelmaking go to work for a major U.S. producer, drastically cutting the time needed to make steel from the eight to twelve hours required by an average open-hearth furnace.

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Steel, which in past years often seemed more interested in conserving cash than investing in modernization, has lagged behind some of its competitors in adopting the industry's two major postwar innovations: the basic oxygen process and continuous casting.

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The most important development in steel in decades is the basic oxygen process, developed in Austria seven years ago, in which a jet of pure oxygen is blown into molten steel held in a special converter.

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While pioneering the technological revolution, on the other hand, the U.S. was not a bit shy about using techniques developed elsewhere, from France's pasteurization to Austria's basic oxygen process for steel.

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