slag
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Copper, steel, aluminum and precious metals can be recovered, but rare-earth metals typically fuse with other byproducts in waste called slag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Next to the sculpture are barrels of toxic "slag" leftover from the melting process.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
“There were high concentrations of slag in these, which is a glass-like material that makes them maybe a little bit more brittle in the cold,” she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
"And if you get the balance right and cool the slag quickly enough, you end up with reactivated cement, without adding any cost to the steelmaking process."
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
On Warren’s bulletin board she spotted the photo from her art school application: the etched-in image of the two of them, children, climbing up the mountain of slag.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Lieberstein previously worked on "The Office" as one of its producers and as Toby, the bland HR representative everyone slagged off on.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023
Executives who didn’t take her calls risked being slagged on Deadline.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2023
"Anyone that we haven't slagged off," jokes Mica.
From BBC ● May 8, 2022
Anyway, you’ll be happy to hear, I fought through my misgivings and slagged the performance—but it struck me that if I was thinking about these questions in this context, these questions have permeated very deep.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2018
Hardly big enough so a cat could slip through, and under it is this big pile of coal slagged up against the foundation wall.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
Sam was now slagging one of his original investors, who then became his biggest competitor.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2023
"I'm not slagging other organisations off - certain things work for certain people," says Marcus.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2021
“This is not about slagging anyone off in this TV series at all,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2021
Fearn doesn’t share the inclination, saying, “I’ve never really been into slagging bands off. It’s just not my thing.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2021
Gary Drake and Ross Wilcox might’ve been slagging me off, but the fainter the voices became, the less I wanted to go back.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
