scoria
noun
the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
scoriae
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pluralof scoria.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
This doctrine is abstruse, and though the images of "garment," "scoriae," "mirror," &c., may stimulate the fancy, we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain.
From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
At different periods, and in different degrees of activity and force, the permanent volcanoes emit steam acids, luminous scoriae, or, when the resistance can be overcome, narrow, band-like streams of molten earths.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
Volcanic scoriae and lava streams are therefore portions of Pyriphlegethon itself, portions of the subterranean molten and ever-undulating mass.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
