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What does desulfurize mean?

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  1. (American, transitive) To remove the sulfur from something (such as petroleum or flue gases).
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For this reason, many steel plants desulfurize blast-furnace iron before it is refined into steel, since at that stage it contains practically no dissolved oxygen, owing to its high silicon and carbon content.
This method provided good recoveries, the ability to use low cost Mg, the ability to desulfurize the base iron and the flexibility to simultaneously add carbon.
It is also used to desulfurize petroleumbased fuels.
The use of a salt of a mercaptosilane to desulfurize an oligosulfide silane.
In this industrial sector, the lime is used to dephosphorize and desulfurize the steel.
When castings exceeding this capability are poured, the foundry must convert the coreless furnace and desulfurize the heel of the channel furnace.

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