percy carlyle gilchrist

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Definition of percy carlyle gilchrist in English English dictionary

born Dec. 27, 1851, Lyme Regis, Dorset, Eng. died Dec. 16, 1935, England British metallurgist. In 1876-77, with his cousin Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850-85), he devised the basic Bessemer process of making steel in Bessemer converters from phosphorus-containing pig iron. In the Thomas-Gilchrist process, the lining used in the converter is basic rather than acidic, and it captures the acidic phosphorus oxides formed upon blowing air through molten iron made from the high-phosphorus iron ore prevalent in Europe. The process subsequently became widely used

Hyphenation

Per·cy Car·lyle gilchrist

Turkish pronunciation

pırsi kärlayl gîlkrîst

Pronunciation

/ˈpərsē ˈkärˌlīl ˈgəlkrəst/ /ˈpɜrsiː ˈkɑːrˌlaɪl ˈɡɪlkrɪst/