PUDDLING

Puddling

Puddling was one step in one of the most important processes of making the first appreciable volumes of high-grade bar iron during the Industrial Revolution. In the original puddling technique, molten iron in a reverberatory furnace was stirred with rods, which were consumed in the process. It was one of the first processes for making bar iron without charcoal in Europe, although much earlier coal-based processes had existed in China. Eventually, the furnace would be used to make small quantities of specialty steels.

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puddling

Noun

  1. The action of making a puddle.
  2. The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids.
  3. The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight.
  4. The first true industrial process to produce steel from pig iron.
  5. A group of mallards (ducks).

Verb

puddling



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