slag vs tailings

slag

noun
  • Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders. 

  • Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal. 

  • Scoria associated with a volcano. 

  • A prostitute, or a woman who acts like one; a slut. 

  • Waste material from a mine. 

  • Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material. 

  • A contemptible person, a scumbag. 

verb
  • To spit. 

  • To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point. 

  • To reduce to slag. 

  • To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone). 

  • To produce slag. 

tailings

noun
  • The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing. 

  • The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation. 

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