Steel works and voltaic pile: what they have in common
- Step 1. Steel works — has part — Open-hearth furnace. A steelmaking shop.
- Step 2. Open-hearth furnace — evolved from — Bessemer converter. A more controllable process.
- Step 3. Bessemer converter — uses — Oxidation. Oxygen in the air burns out the carbon.
- Step 4. Oxidation — is used in — Electrochemical reaction. Redox reactions.
- Step 5. Electrochemical reaction — is used in — Voltaic pile. Current arises from the reaction of dissimilar metals with an electrolyte.