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SCORIA (scoriae)
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Irregular inflected form: scoriae
Dictionary entry overview: What does scoria mean?
• SCORIA (noun)
The noun SCORIA has 1 sense:
1. the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
Familiarity information: SCORIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("scoria" is a kind of...):
scum (a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scoria"):
basic slag (slag produced in making steel; low in silica but having large amounts of calcium phosphate; useful as fertilizer)
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