scoria
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scoriae
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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
Though damaged by the falling scoria, it was once more green; but the grave in which the gold and pearls lay was covered three feet deep in lava and small stones.
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
The former describes many substances under the terms scoria, molybdaena, scoria argyros and lithargyros, which are all varieties of litharge.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust.
From Time Magazine Archive
How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi?
From Time Magazine Archive
They are at a depth of about 12 ft., in slaty shale containing Llandeilo fossils and contemporaneous felspathic ash and scoriae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Besides the scoriae, I found upon the hillside much broken pottery, and from the shape of several fragments it was easy to restore the form of earthenware pots which were probably used for smelting purposes.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
Our decks were covered with dust and scoriae, and this fell steadily all that day.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables
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