slag
IPA: sɫˈæg
noun
- Waste material from a mine.
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
- (UK, Ireland, derogatory, dated) A coward.
- (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
verb
- (transitive) To produce slag.
- (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- (transitive) To reduce to slag.
- (transitive, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
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Examples of "slag" in Sentences
- The slag melts in the heat of the furnace.
- The slag is a byproduct of the smelting process.
- The slag is skimmed off the top of the metal as it is tapped.
- Iron slag is a waste product, but is used in steel sometimes.
- The system includes a nozzle for collecting the slag and fume.
- In conventional furnaces the slag will attack the furnace walls.
- Remnants of slag from the furnaces can still be found in the area.
- The addition of lime or dolomite favors the slagging of the silicon.
- This was due to the erosion of the furnace lining by the liquid slag.
- If I call the queen a dirty parasite slag is that OK, it is just words.
- The resulting smelted steel is tapped and the slag is tapped separately.
- When iron runs from the slag hole the well is full and the furnace is taped.
- As for the name, the first thing I think of is a bing, a mountain of slag from a coal mine.
- They then thought that it was a piece of slag from a local foundry that had fallen out of a dump truck.
- Keep up the blog on February 13, 2008 at 8: 21 am | Reply deborah parr seriously someone got called a slag and was reported to the police?
- To clarify: in English, slag is the mostly contaminated waste product of the iron- and steel-making process that would be inimical to agriculture.
- Deposits of raw materials by the rail yards formed mountain ranges of limestone, iron ore, and coal to go with the towering gray heaps of by-product called slag.
- The plant used to weld its steel auto frames in a way that produced lots of sparks, which, in turn, left lots of a waste-metal byproduct known as slag on the floor.