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...process takes its name from the initial letters of Linz and Donawitz, two picture-postcard Austrian towns where the technique was first developed ten years ago. At the government-owned Voest steelworks along the Danube at Linz, scientists soon after World War II began seeking a way to make steel with less scrap-of which Austria has little. Joined by experts from another nationalized steel company, the Alpine Montan works of Donawitz, they derived the LD process from the principle, discovered a century ago by Sir Henry Bessemer, that pure oxygen speeds the cooking of iron, coke and limestone into...
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