Scoria

Word SCORIA
Character 6
Hyphenation ‖Sco ri a
Pronunciations /skɔːɹɪə/

Definitions and meanings of "Scoria"

What do we mean by scoria?

Porous cinderlike fragments of dark lava. noun

The refuse of a smelted metal or ore; slag. noun

Dross; cinder; slag: a word of rather variable and indefinite meaning, generally used in the plural, and with reference to volcanic rocks. See scoriaceous. noun

A genus of geometrid moths, containing such as the black-veined moth, S. dealbata. noun

The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross. noun

Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders. noun

The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals noun

The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.

Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater.

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The word "scoria" in example sentences

From the observatory, where His Majesty's faithful servant still remains, come telegrams that the great pebbles -- what we call scoria -- have ruined ❋ Unknown (1887)

Porcellanite (also called scoria or clinker) forms from the natural burning of coal beds; it caps the hills with distinctive red-orange rock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are tracts of these which are in part or wholly of volcanic origin; then the hills are called scoria buttes. ❋ Unknown (1885)

The eruption opened a 2,000ft fissure, and also produced lava fountains that built several hills of bubble-filled lava rocks, called scoria, along the vent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I was on a bladed road which the gas companies have recently covered with what they call "scoria". ❋ Grouse (2007)

No, what the gas companies call "scoria" is basically crushed rock that is not crushed as fine as gravel. ❋ Grouse (2007)

In the majority of cases the lavas consist of a mass of crystals floating in a liquid magma, and the distension of such a mass by the escape of steam from its midst gives rise to the formation of the rough cindery-looking material to which the name of "scoria" is applied. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)

Eroded buttes, Hell Creek badlands, scoria (burnt coal) mounds, and salt pans punctuate a thick mat of shortgrass prairie and dusky gray sagebrush. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was a shield volcano of thin basaltic flows interleaved with ash and scoria overlaid in places by later volcanic domes, plugs and dykes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The interstratified basalt lava, scoria and pyroclastic rocks yield sand, clayey soils in depressions, on plains and on outward draining slopes and a sterile cemented hardpan surface where hydrated. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The volcanism of the Atherton Tablelands and adjacent volcanic provinces is characterized by scoria cones, lava cones and maars of irregular distribution. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The crescent-shaped floor of the caldera teems with a network of smaller volcanic mouths, cones, domes, lava channels, dikes, lavas from light felsic flows to viscid red lavas and black obsidian blocks, ochre plains of sandy alluvial deposits and red and black volcanic ejecta, scoria, lapilli and pumice, from a long series of basaltic effusions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

High heat flow from fumaroles at its summit have been routinely observed, and it is believed that a summit lava lake and a scoria cone were formed within the past 1,000 years. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Dagli altoforni del nostro silenzio qualche scoria è volata. ❋ Greenintegerblog (2008)

We had to force them to stop ... they had so much fun - eventually lying full length and excavating the hole, clambering inside to heave out great scoria slabs ...planning where to put the crow bar for best leverage ... ❋ Doyle (2008)

Only the platform statues were given eye-sockets, and in 1978 it was discovered that the sockets were once fitted with beautiful inlaid eyes of white coral and red scoria. ❋ Unknown (2007)

About 55 statues are made of other stone – red scoria, basalt, or trachyte – and are smaller than the average size of 5 m. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The pukao – the headdress or ‘topknot’ – is a soft red-scoria cylinder quarried from the small crater at Puna Pau. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoria. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

We will build with polyethylene bags filled with scoria (so-called "earthbag" construction) and do a final plastering with "papercrete". ❋ Unknown (2004)

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