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
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
"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
I had helped them gather the knotted chunks of slag metal from the desert floor.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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
EST 21:05 Stuart Heritage And then Sarah Silverman came on to announce the James Bond theme, and just slagged off James Bond.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 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
"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
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
