Scoria

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Geology Porous cinderlike fragments of dark lava. Also called cinders, slag.
  • n. Metallurgy The refuse of a smelted metal or ore; slag. Also called cinder.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.
  • n. Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Dross; cinder; slag: a word of rather variable and indefinite meaning, generally used in the plural, and with reference to volcanic rocks. See scoriaceous.
  • n. A genus of geometrid moths, containing such as the black-veined moth, S. dealbata.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
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    scoriae   
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    dross   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clinkers    scoriae    pumice    tufa    syenite    clinker    adiamante    slag    5    lapilli