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

Excavations and geophysical surveys in this area revealed crucibles, slag, and tin bronze artifacts.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025

It is a quiet town surrounded by World War One memorials and by the tall coal slag heaps that litter this stretch of northern France.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

The Cambridge team spotted the composition of used cement is almost exactly the same as the slag used in electric arc furnaces.

From BBC • May 22, 2024

Later we walk home, glancing back to see the great carloads of slag being dumped, red hot and smoking, into the ravine that skirts the steel mill.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison