basic slag

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noun Metallurgy.

slag formed by the basic process of steelmaking, used as a furnace or converter lining or as a fertilizer.

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Origin of basic slag

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby basic slag

basic proposition, basicranial, basic rate, basic salary, basic salt, basic slag, basic statement, basic steel, basic training, basic vocabulary, basic wage

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How to use basic slag in a sentence

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.
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What we call curiosity in the ape is the basic form of the characteristic which we call attention or observation in man.
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The carbonates are occasionally partially hydrolyzed to basic carbonates.
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It is thus evident, that the solvent action of ammonium hydroxide is not due to its basic functions.
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In the end I might leave one gleaming flake or so amidst the slag heaps for a moment of postmortem sympathy.
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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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