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Scoria   Listen
noun
Scoria  n.  (pl. scoriae)  
1.
The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.
2.
Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.





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"Scoria" Quotes from Famous Books



... fathoms. That which we find in this crust of the globe appears to be the effect of some great upheavals. It seems that this globe was once on fire, and that the rocks forming the base of this crust of the earth are scoria remaining from a great fusion. In their entrails are found metal and mineral [278] products, which closely resemble those emanating from our furnaces: and the entire sea may be a kind of oleum per deliquium, just as tartaric oil ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz


Words linked to "Scoria" :   scum, basic slag, slag, dross


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