By re-melting the cast iron in an open hearth, the carbon is oxidized and removed from the iron.
Ultimately this principle was applied even more efficiently in Regenerative heat exchanger, such as the Cowper stove (which preheats the blast in blast furnaces to this day), and in the Open hearth furnace (for making steel) by the Siemens-Martin process.
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