scoria
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scoriae
plural
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Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
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Geology. a cinderlike basic cellular lava.
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a rough cindery crust on top of solidified lava flows containing numerous vesicles
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refuse obtained from smelted ore; slag
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scoriae
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Origin of scoria
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin scōria < Greek skōría, derivative of skôr dung
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The type of volcanic rock with common vesicles is called scoria.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Lank shadows and stocky, the fluttering shadows of dresses, the ridiculous elongated shadows of trousered legs, darted and danced last week all over the reddish scoria of the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
We passed through a lane of black scoria, with steep banks on both sides.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
All that fearful day and all the following night scoria and ashes continued to fall, the thunder never ceased, and the lightning was still incessant.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
Large quantities of iron scoria, scattered over the fields near the village, are generally allowed to indicate that a Roman bloomery was established near the spot.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber
How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi?
From Time Magazine Archive
His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust.
From Time Magazine Archive
These consist either of lava or scoriae, or of finely- stratified, sandstone-like tuff.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Above the wooded zone Ætna is covered with miniature cones thrown up by different eruptions and regions of dreary plateau covered with scoriae and ashes and buried under snow a part of the year.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
Still another plain, black with lava and the scoriae of extinct volcanoes—black, treeless, and herbless—with not an atom of organic matter upon its desolate surface.
From The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid
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