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

Bryan had told his son he would train by running up and down the slag heaps behind his house.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025

He said it also makes steel recycling less polluting because making the chemicals currently used as slag has a high carbon cost too.

From BBC • May 22, 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

Smithy and Mara were busy sorting the metal slag that they would have to leave behind and the tools they could pack onto the camels.

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