slag - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • do: Still young, don't slag him off yet!
  • form: The impurities then float to the top of the metal forming slag.
  • include: I think some of the fillers used included slag and ash from iron works and coal fired power stations.
  • granulate: Even the cement was produced using powdered ground granulated blast furnace slag ( GGBS ).

Adjective modifier

  • molten: A hole is dug into the ground making a channel to allow molten slag to escape.
  • fat: Why would I want some fat slag on TV playing with herself with a wine bottle?
  • black: Inside the cage were their feathers heaped like a black slag of tar.
  • old: The seventeenth century produced a lot of the old slag in the Belfry area.

Modifies a noun

  • heap: The slag heaps or pit mounds of closed mines have been put to many new uses.
  • wool: For reasons of energy saving, it is expedient to insulate the adsorber with mineral or slag wool, also as contact protection.
  • cake: The size of the slag cakes is related to the size of the smelting furnaces, which must have been quite large.
  • fragment: Some of the slag fragments have multiple layers that may result from continuous or serial tapping.
  • deposit: Chemical analyzes of soil samples indicated elevated levels of arsenic, zinc, tin and copper bound into the slag deposits.
  • people: It's not as if you have been going out of your way to slag people off 24/7!

Noun used with modifier

  • furnace: Huge amounts of furnace slag were used in building Roman roads.
  • blast: Indeed some blast furnace slag is used to make glass and cement.
  • copper: The literature review is focused on glass grit and copper slag, but the scope of the work includes other key blasting media.
  • iron: How about Iron Age pottery from Saxon ceramics or iron slag from copper working waste?
  • steel: To evaluate the temperature effects of BOS steel slag on the soil stabilization process.
  • coal: Peasant scavenging for coal with his son on a state-owned coal mine slag heap.

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