basic slag

We were barely into the appetizer when he asked a fairly basic question—where did my family live?
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The training, at least as described by the U.S. military, is incredibly basic.
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Nothing in it was meant to change the basic operations of the capitalist economy or to intervene aggressively in class relations.
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And yet—as any private who went through basic can tell you—good weapons training means not shooting wildly 14 times.
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I was put in a solitary confinement completely cut off from the outside world without even enjoying basic prisoner rights.
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Nuclei and certain other structures in the blood are stained by the basic dyes, and are hence called basophilic.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
What we call curiosity in the ape is the basic form of the characteristic which we call attention or observation in man.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris
The carbonates are occasionally partially hydrolyzed to basic carbonates.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
It is thus evident, that the solvent action of ammonium hydroxide is not due to its basic functions.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
In the end I might leave one gleaming flake or so amidst the slag heaps for a moment of postmortem sympathy.
The New Machiavelli|Herbert George Wells

British Dictionary definitions for basic slag

basic slag

noun

a furnace slag produced in steel-making, containing large amounts of calcium phosphate: used as a fertilizer

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