Advantages:
- allowed steel to be produced without fuel
- using the impurities of the iron to create the necessary heat
- reduced the costs of steel production
Disadvantages:
- could convert only a pig iron low in phosphorus and sulfur
- these elements could have been removed by adding a basic flux such as lime, but the basic sl*g produced would have degraded the acidic refractory lining of Bessemer's converter.
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