Meaning of dephosphorize | Babel Free

Definitions

To free from phosphorus.

Examples

“It is also proposed to dephosphorize molten metal direct from the blast furnace as before described, then running it minus the slag into an open hearth, and there desiliconizing it down to .025, and then withdrawing the dephosphorized metal and running it into pigs.”

“Not less than three furnaces should be employed; two to superheat, desiliconize, partially dephosphorize, and decarbonize.”

“[…] yet I wish to point out that we can simplify the matter considerably by discriminating between slags which actively dephosphorize and those which are simply retentive of phosphorus, or in short, into the dephosphorizing and the nondephosphorizing on one hand, and the retentive and the irretentive on the other.”

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