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
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
“Too many to remember. Behind the school, on the slag heap, you name it,” he says.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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
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
Trump responded to the review in a letter to the paper in which he said that you, unlike him, were “not born with great writing ability” and generally slagged you off.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2016
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
He said: "No, we read Vanity Fair - they're slagging each other off in the pages... You don't need to go for lunch with those people."
From BBC ● May 26, 2023
“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
YouTube videos were dedicated to slagging her off.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2020
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
