Associations to the word «Krupp»

Wiktionary

KRUPP GUN, noun. (historical) A kind of breech-loading steel cannon.
KRUPP PROCESS, proper noun. A process for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace.
KRUPP PROCESS, proper noun. A process for the manufacture of steel armor plates, involving the addition of chromium and nickel to the metal, and a treatment resembling the Harvey process.

Dictionary definition

KRUPP, noun. German arms manufacturer and son of Friedrich Krupp; his firm provided ordnance for German armies from the 1840s through World War II (1812-1887).
KRUPP, noun. German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826).

Wise words

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