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
The shower of ashes and scoria quickly covered him, and nineteen hundred years later the workmen, excavating the ruins, discovered his body at the base of yonder wall.
From Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance by Guy Boothby
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
The disgruntled cattle-owners, under a guard of ten men, were resting quietly far from anything resembling excitement in one of the untracked places among the mesas and scoria buttes.
From The Free Range by Douglas Duer
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
“But, if I may joodge from zee stones ant scoriae around,” said the professor, “zee volcano is not always so peaceful as it is joost now.”
From Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
It is hard for any blossom of modern poetry to root itself in the scoriae of Hecla.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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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