Top 10 similar words or synonyms for ironworks

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Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for ironworks

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Ironworks The mills operating converters of any type are better called steelworks, ironworks referring to former processes, like puddling.
Ironworks Ironworks succeed bloomeries when blast furnaces replaced former methods. An integrated ironworks in the 19th century usually included one or more blast furnaces and a number of puddling furnaces or a foundry with or without other kinds of ironworks. After the invention of the Bessemer process, converters became widespread, and the appellation steelworks replaced ironworks.
Ironworks The processes carried at ironworks are usually described as ferrous metallurgy, but the term siderurgy is also occasionally used. This is derived from the Greek words "sideros" - iron and "ergon" or "ergos" - work. This is an unusual term in English, and it is best regarded as an anglicisation of a term used in French, Spanish, and other Romance languages.
Ironworks Ironworks is used as an omnibus term covering works undertaking one or more iron-producing processes. Such processes or species of ironworks where they were undertaken include the following:
Ironworks After bar iron had been produced in a finery forge or in the forge train of a rolling mill, it might undergo further processes in one of the following: