steel production

English Thesaurus

1. making steel from pig iron (noun.process)

hypernym	:	production,
definition	:	the act or process of producing something (noun.act)

hyponym	:	bessemer process,
definition	:	an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost (noun.process)

hyponym	:	open-hearth process,
definition	:	a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace (noun.process)