Converter
[kən'vɜːtə] or [kən'vɝtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another.
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Definition
(n.) One who converts; one who makes converts.
(n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
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Examples
- The Holly converter, covered by United States patents No. 86,303, and No. 86,304, January 26, 1869, represented one of the most important American developments of the Bessemer converter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If steel was wanted a small amount of carbon, usually in the form of spiegeleisen, was introduced into the converter before the process was complete. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mushet (British patent No. 2,219, of 1856) of adding spiegeleisen, a triple compound of iron, carbon and manganese, to the charge in the converter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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