Definitions
Stony waste material left after metal is separated from ore.
Used in a sentence
“He leans out over the track and skims slag off the top of the boiling steel, risking what is called “catching a flyer,” which occurs when hot metal explodes out of the mold, spraying everyone in the vicinity.”
“Consequently, mounds of large ‘cakes’ of slag are often found near the smelting sites of the Late Bronze Age, as for example at Ramsau in Austria (Doonan et al. 1996).”
“All these properties are determined by slag composition and its temperature. In basic slags, foaming ability increases as SiO₂ concentration grows.”
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01“Smelting waste”4 letters
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