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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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
Its entrails are strewn about; nearly the entire surface of the ground is covered with cinder-heaps and mounds of scoriae.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
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
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
