Debris

Usage examples of slag.

As it lay on the table before him, he realized that it was nothing but a common aerolite, with the appearance of black slag.

Some assayers use a little powdered fluor-spar to assist the fusion of refractory slags.

He started out across the landing field with Chai, running over the black scars of old flames, stumbling on calcined rock and ridges of glassy slag like cheap obsidian, flawed and stained.

Malone muttered something about the culchies looking for a chance to slag them, sending them back to Dublin in a hearse.

The product is fused with more arsenic under a slag, consisting mainly of borax.

In this case a layer of fused common salt floating on the slag, so as to protect it from the air and furnace gases, is a distinct advantage.

The slag when fused should be liquid and homogeneous, and not too corrosive on the crucible.

Similarly, fused slags damp and filter through a cupel, but the molten metal not damping it withdraws itself into a button, which is retained.

Detach the slag, replace in the crucible, and, when fused, add a mixture of 20 grams of litharge and 1 gram of charcoal.

I thought it was a hooly player from the Rivals whose talent was the short field by the slag pile.

When these oxides are present an additional quantity of flour must be used, and precautions must be taken to prevent reoxidation of the slag by the furnace gases.

They could take a crucial world like Sylene or Riparious and turn it into slag.

It was the living men she feared, Weese and Ser Gregor Clegane and Lord Tywin Lannister himself, who kept his apartments in Kingspyre Tower, still the tallest and mightiest of all, though lopsided beneath the weight of the slagged stone that made it look like some giant half-melted black candle.

It is made up of unburnt anthracite and small lumps of slag proper together with some buttons of metallic tin.

Easily oxidisable metals such as zinc, iron, antimony and tin, will go mainly into the slag, and, if the proportion of the slag is large, very little will go into the metal.