scoria
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /skɔːɹɪə/
scoria
- The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore. [from 14th c.]
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- The like stuff is in Anacharsis Cloots: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- (geology) Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater. [from 18th c.]
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 10:
- An excellent guidebook by Drs Kilburn and McGuire of University College London reveals that these unpromising pieces of debris are scoria and lithic fragments of the March 1944 eruption.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 10:
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