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ing steel. -- Open-hearth process (Steel Manuf.), a process by which melted cast iron is converted into steel by the addition of wrought iron, or iron ore and manganese, and by exposure to heat in an open-hearth furnace; -- also called the Siemens-Martin process, from the inventors. -- Open-hearth steel, steel made b…

Capability of being converted into an oxide.

Capable of being converted into an oxide.

The act of treating with ozone; also, the act of converting into, or producing, ozone; ozonization.

To convert into ozone, as oxygen.

To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism. Hallywell.

n albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.

in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.

ontained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin.

A substance convertible into peptone.

Capable of yielding, or being converted into, peptone.

To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food.

A special form of rotary converter with stationary commutator and rotating brushes, in which the exciting field is induced by the alternating current in a short-circuited magnetic core instead of being produced by an external magnet.

ho has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert. That notorious pervert, Henry of Navarre. Thackeray.

Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water. Boyle.

Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.

To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan.

osopher's stone, an imaginary stone which the alchemists formerly sought as instrument of converting the baser metals into gold.

rless crystalline substance obtained by reduction from phthaleïn, into which it is easily converted by oxidation; hence, any one of the series of which phthalin proper is the type.