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

He has spent time exploring and photographing the area's trails and hillsides dotted with slag heaps of slate spoils, its old quarry sites and abandoned machinery.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024

“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

"We found the combination of cement clinker and iron oxide is an excellent steelmaking slag because it foams and it flows well," said Dunant.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

I have been waiting for it ever since Smithy and Mara became felters overnight, even though they still carried the slag metal everywhere.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri