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.
noun
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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
The lime was added as a flux, and acted to unite with itself the sand, clay and other impurities to form a slag or scoria.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
Veins of ochre and clay, holes filled with scoria, with intrusions of larger or smaller fragments of various rocks and minerals, and a kind of stratification, are the principal features of this trachytic formation.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
Just as a fringe of scoria and lava encircles the mouth of a burning mountain.
From A Girl's Ride in Iceland by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
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
It has been found profitable to resmelt the scoriae of the ancient workings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
No vegetation, no climatic action has sensibly changed the hues of the lava and scoriae that in some places cover the plains for miles.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
The patent further describes that "as the workman stirs the metal," the scoriae will separate, "and the particles of iron will adhere, which particles the workman must collect or gather into a mass or lump."
From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles
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