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Scoria

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slagnounImpurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
drossnounWaste or impure matter.

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slagnounImpurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
drossnounWaste or impure matter.
scorificationnounThe reduction of an ore to scoria, especially as a means of refining or assay.
cindernounPartially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
cindersnoun(geology, plural only) Fragments of lava; scoria.
clinkernounSlag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
ganguenoun(mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.
smelter dustnounA smoke or dust released during the refining of metals; often contains volatile elements such as arsenic
prillnouna pellet, a granule, a small bead
regulusnounAn impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores.
skarnnoun(geology) Any of various metamorphic rocks formed by metasomatism.
zorbanounA form of nonferrous scrap metal consisting mainly of aluminum, especially that which is left behind after an automobile is shredded and the iron and steel is removed.
mill cindernounslag from a puddling furnace
scorifiernounA refractory crucible used in the assay of metals.
scorzanoun(mineralogy, obsolete) epidote in the form of sand
schlichnoun(dated, mining) The finer portion of crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.
iron bloomnounA mixture of fine iron particles, unreacted iron oxide (ore), slag and charcoal residue.
crozzlenounA brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
tailingsnoun(mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
calxnoun(now chiefly historical) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).

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