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Percy Gilchrist
British metallurgist
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- In full:
- Percy Carlyle Gilchrist
- Born:
- December 27, 1851, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
- Died:
- December 16, 1935, England (aged 83)
Percy Gilchrist (born December 27, 1851, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England—died December 16, 1935, England) was a British metallurgist who, with his better-known cousin Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, devised in 1876–77 a process (thereafter widely used in Europe) of manufacturing in Bessemer converters a kind of low-phosphorus steel known as Thomas steel. 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. Gilchrist, a graduate of the Royal School of Mines, London, was elected ...(100 of 96 words)