rare. [f. STEELIFY v.: see -FICATION.] The action of the verb STEELIFY; the process of converting iron into steel.
1875. Ure’s Dict. Arts (ed. 7), III. 899. In the production of natural steel, the molecules of metal which compose the mass are per se charged with a certain percentage of carbon necessary for their steelification.
1888. Jrnl. Franklin Inst., CXXV. 304. The steelification is so equalized throughout the mass that [etc.].
