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slag

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/slæɡ/ English

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noun

  1. Waste material from a coal mine
  2. Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal
  3. Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders
  4. Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material

verb

  1. To produce slag
  2. To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point
  3. To reduce to slag
  4. (sometimes with "off") to talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone)

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