Krupp process — (kr[oo^]p) n. (Iron Metal.) (a) A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. Called also the {Bell Krupp … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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