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V.—THE BESSEMER PROCESS (continued)
IN the previous papers I have described the phenomena presented during the different stages of the blow, and have endeavoured to explain the chemical actions upon which they depend. The next stage, that of adding the molten spiegeleisen to the iron which has been fully acted upon by the blast, also presents some interesting phenomena which have not hitherto been fully examined. In a paper on “Burnt Iron and Burnt Steel,“read before the Chemical Society 6ih April last* 1 showed that the “burnt iron “of the workman is really what its name implies, viz., iron which has been more or less oxidised throughout its substance, and that “burnt steel“is quite different,-that the presence of combined carbon in sufficient quantity effectually protects iron from oxidation by heat.
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WILLIAMS, W. Papers on Iron and Steel . Nature 4, 226 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004226a0
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