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Basic slag

noun

Slag produced in making steel; low in silica but having large amounts of calcium phosphate; useful as fertilizer.

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... effective lime in basic slag, as made by modern methods, is so small that its value is nearly negligible. Basic slag is a good source of phosphorus, and in addition has a tendency toward correction of soil acidity, but such tendency has little cash value for land that requires a considerable ...

— Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement • Alva Agee

... the most important innovation in the last generation has been the constantly growing use of basic slag, formerly left neglected at the pit mouth and now generally recognized as a wonderful producer ...

— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler

... spray die down. What entered the crucible as iron is now ready to be poured forth as steel. Once more the "vessels" are lowered and made to discharge their contents. First comes a molten cascade of basic slag which is borne away to cool, then to be ground to finest powder, before its quickening power is given to pasture and cornfield, imparting a deeper purple to the clover and a mellower gold to the rippling ...

— Tales of the Ridings • F. W. Moorman