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Open-hearth   /ˈoʊpən-hɑrθ/   Listen
Open-hearth

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or produced by the open-hearth process.



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"Open-hearth" Quotes from Famous Books



... makes it very cheaply; but it has one fault—it is too quick. The converter roars away for a few minutes, till the carbon and other impurities are burned out; and the men have no control over the operation. In what is called the "open-hearth" process, pig iron, scrap iron, and ore are melted together with whatever other substances may be needed to make the particular kind of steel desired. This process takes much longer than the Bessemer, but it can be ...
— Diggers in the Earth • Eva March Tappan
... a brilliant sight. The terrific heat from the first nozzle caused the metal to glow under the torch as if in an open-hearth furnace. From the second nozzle issued a stream of oxygen, under which the hot metal of the door ...
— The Gold of the Gods • Arthur B. Reeve


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