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oxygen steelmaking

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oxygen steelmaking [′äk·sə·jən ′stēl‚māk·iŋ]
(metallurgy)
The manufacture of steel from molten pig iron and steel scrap by methods which employ pure oxygen gas (99+%) and suitable fluxes to remove carbon and phosphorus (and in part, sulfur) without introducing nitrogen or hydrogen.
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A spin-off from this 'visible standards' project is the recovery of thousands of tonnes of scrap steel which are being recycled through TCP's basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) plant.
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Today, steel may be made via a process called oxygen steelmaking.
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Oxygen steelmaking remains the dominant steelmaking process, accounting for two-thirds of global steel output and, indeed, gaining percentage points throughout the last few years.
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