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.
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
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 characteristic phenomenon of a volcanic eruption is the steam which issues from the crater before the appearance of the molten lava, dust, ashes and scoria.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum
Here, though, he had a check, by the clothes of the infant catching in the rough scoria, when—foxlike—he backed out, turned, and then began to back in.
From A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn
How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi?
From Time Magazine Archive
His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the first imperfect attempts the air was heated to little more than 80 degrees Fahrenheit, yet the results were satisfactory, and the scoriae from the furnace evidently contained less iron.
From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles
Heine, discovery of crystals of feldspar in scoriae, 268.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
The cloud-mass of fine penetrating scoriae must have instantly stopped their works, and they had fallen silent with man.
From The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
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