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Sentence Examples It's cheap, if you're subsidising nuclear power to the hilt, and frankly we have whole slag heaps of it to dump. Before Jenny could blow the access hatch off, it melted away into a slag heap, courtesy of the Fire-Twins. It's a remarkable turnaround for what was little more than a gathering of slag heaps. The lining must resist high temperature, oxidized basic slag and liquid metal. It was concluded that the neutral or basic action of titanous oxide was a useful substitute for wustite in the slag. The land includes the canal and surrounding farmland but not the factory site itself, the sports field or the slag bank. The European company produces a mineral wool insulation containing equal amounts of rock wool and slag wool. It was a more rustic and northern version of Detroit with escarpments of slag and iron ore. Water entrapped by molten metal or slag may generate explosive forces that launch hot metal or material ores over a wide area. Always clear the area below cutting or welding operations so hot slag will not drop on hoses, cables, flammables, combustibles or employees. In this play, the set also represents the urban slag heap of life, derelict it would seem except that it's not derelict. Henry may have fiddled and diddled, but at least he did not go out of his way to slag off an entire nation. Other cementitious materials, such as fly ash, and silica fume and GGBF slag, often contribute to color variation, as does calcium chloride. There is too much bad history whistling through the old slag heaps and neglected estates of Sheffield. Others dig on the slag heaps of the now-shut collieries looking for lumps of coal. Some people had even died in slag slides, picking loose bits of coal in order to keep their homes heated. There was a time when the most exotic thing you were likely to come across in the kingdom was a slag heap. There were also, of course, slag heaps and derelict land, palls of smoke, and polluted rivers. The threads for the bottom bracket were cut precisely with no slag or burs. There is also an enormous slag heap stretching 4 kilometres that blows dust and leaches toxins when it rains. Show More Sentences The authority's archaeologists have since found evidence of the bloomery forge, a dam, a wheelpit, and slag heaps. He came from Pontefract and said there was a similar problem there with houses around slag heaps. In the Montagne Noire area iron slag was used for road metalling, providing a very hard surface that was resistant to any kind of degradation. They rushed up and down the slag heaps at Capper and messed about on motorcycles on the dirt tracks. From the top of a local slag heap you could count 200 factory chimneys, which were incredible really. The addition of phosphor copper or the use of a phosphate or borate slag flux cover and thorough stirring improves the rate of lead removal. These systems are used for level measurement in continuous caster molds and tundishes and slag detection in ladles. The slag was looking rusty, and where some of it had been eroded there has appeared a large blob of tar, it was melting and bubbling in the sun. The bloom contained iron slag and particles of charcoal entrapped in the metal. The bloom was repeatedly re-heated and hammered to remove most of the molten slag. The massive pile of mullock and slag towers over the city like the walls of Mordor in Lord of The Rings. In highly developed countries, the major components of industrial waste are blast furnace and steel slag, and power station ash. The waste product slag was also increasingly used in road and house building. The union has leveled 15 separate charges against Levy, a contractor at Mittal Steel USA, which performs slag processing and metal reclamation. Tell me about Lehigh's interest in supplemental materials, like slag cement. The hardened matter was slag, a waste product from metal working, and contained evidence of iron, copper and lead manufacture. The blasts shot towards the small shielded orb and reduced the metal to molten slag. This artificial uranium mine is contained in the slag material from power station coal combustion and deposited in landfills. Blast furnaces are used to recycle slag, dross, and residues from other processes. Vincent snorted, and turned the doorknob into molten slag once it had swung shut again. Show More Sentences I watched, slightly shocked, as molten metal slag fell onto the glass, steaming. Mineral fiber insulation, including fiber glass and rock wool, is produced from either molten glass, slag, or rock. There were areas of bare rock and slag, which were around old gold mines, according to the naturalist. Thirdly, reduce the clinker content in cement, by intergrinding cementious material like slag, fly ash, or limestone. Kerosene has been used to light pyres constructed of coal slag, old tyres and tar-soaked rail sleepers. The increasing size of the slag pile poses an ongoing threat to the richest remaining prairie site. It is usually caused by the scouring action of sand, gravel, slag, earth, and other gritty material. The difference in densities of the molten iron and molten slag allow each material to be removed separately from the furnace. The stats and history of this limestone slag heap are impressive in their own right. But as soon as a women starts to pick and choose who she sleeps with she gets called a slag. She told him Trev had called her a dirty slag after their drink the other night and had refused to sleep with her. There's no need for anyone to slag us off because they don't know us as people. Although I'm a very powerful man my work chums slag me constantly for my Dublin accent and terrible stutter. People can think I'm stupid, they can slag me off, but I have tried to put forward both sides. As much as certain people like to slag him off, when Jones doesn't play I feel we really struggle for goals. Meanwhile, Hain himself can slag people off just because they don't conform to his narrow vision of what constitutes a Brit. Of course, if you don't care about that and just want to slag people off, that's a good way to do it. In 1966, a slag heap collapsed and engulfed a primary school in Aberfan, killing 144 people, including 116 children. The latter represented a well-designed mixture of granulated acidic slag and flotation sterile material. Rotary furnaces generally use Na 2 CO 3 and iron as fluxes, which produce a fluid, low-melting slag. Show More Sentences Elsewhere in the Vale of York, a villa was represented by hypocaust remains, with evidence of jet-working as well as iron slag. A second limey slag is used to remove sulphur and to deoxidise the metal in the furnace. Standing on the flattened slag heap that served as the rocket launch site, he proudly sports a baseball cap emblazoned Rocket Boys Dad. One rapidly growing industry that will have an impact on business is supplemental, cementitious products like slag cement. I'll put up pictures of the slag heaps, smokestacks and mysterious pond of what appears to be liquid later. The solutions exhibited strong alkaline pH values for slag and washed slag while the pH of the soil solution of garden mould was only slightly alkaline. In the acid processes, deoxidation can take place in the furnaces, leaving a reasonable time for the inclusions to rise into the slag and so be removed before casting. Piles of black slag marked the entrances to small coal mines. Parts coming off the machine typically do not have dross or slag left over from the cutting process, which means less time in the electropolishing postprocess. A flux is sometimes used that combines chemically with the infusible materials in the ore to form slag, which floats on top of the metal and can be drawn off. Fluxes of this type are usually based on borax, boric acid, or glass, which melts at copper alloy melting temperatures to provide a fluid slag cover. The properties of the soluble glass concrete containing the new stiffener are very similar to those of the same kind concrete containing ferrochromium slag. Like most newcomers, all he wanted to do was slag the winter, unable to see the merits of this funny little town for the icicles and subzero temperatures. I used to slag him that he was a redneck in a jackeen's body. It would be the equivalent of someone trying to slag Halle Berry without mentioning Catwoman. In particular, tuyeres in the furnace became blocked with slag. Total cement contents and percentages of additives, including fly ash, silica fume, ground granulated blast furnace slag, and an alkaline earth mineral admixture, were varied. Rock wool loose-fill insulation is similar to fiberglass except that it is spun from blast furnace slag and other rock-like materials instead of molten glass. Culled from a slag heap of cable-access shows, cheapo action movies, inane sitcoms and tabloid news shows, these images are unfit for human consumption. It looks like at some point the slag from the mine was dumped into this hole in small quantities, and as a boy I found many chunks of Blue John down there. Show More Sentences In segmentary societies, craft production was primarily organized at the household level, and village sites may be found to contain pottery kilns, or slag from metalworking. A sprue that's not kept full will increase slag, dross and air ingestion and produce inconsistent mold filling times. As most ores are impure, it is often necessary to use flux, such as limestone, to remove the accompanying rock gangue as slag. The slag floats on top of the heavier matte, and is removed and discarded or recycled. He was informed that a barrel of tar had fallen onto the road, and someone poured waste slag from the nearby furnaces to cover up the mess. The slag chemistry of the process is also controlled to ensure that impurities such as silicon and phosphorus are removed from the metal. Heating this material with silica in flash smelting removes much of the iron as slag. In this process lead bullion and slag is obtained directly from lead concentrates. The lead monoxide is thereby reduced to metallic lead, in the midst of a slag rich in lead monoxide. Wrought iron is characterized by the presence of fine fibers of slag entrapped within the metal. Sometimes the slag which runs out the slag hole is collected in a small cup shaped tool, allowed to cool and harden. With acid refractory lined cupolas a greenish colored slag means the fluxing is proper and adequate. The end products are usually molten metal and slag phases tapped from the bottom, and flue gases exiting from the top of the furnace. Once the pig iron and slag has been tapped, the taphole is again plugged with refractory clay. The manganese sulfide is lighter than the melt, so it tends to float out of the melt and into the slag. Cast and especially pig iron have excess slag which must be at least partially removed to produce quality wrought iron. The bloom had to be forged mechanically to consolidate it and shape it into a bar, expelling slag in the process. There was still some slag left in the puddle balls, so while they were still hot they would be shingled to remove the remaining slag and cinder. It involved taking molten steel from a Bessemer converter and pouring it into cooler liquid slag. The slag inclusions, or stringers, in wrought iron give it properties not found in other forms of ferrous metal. Show More Sentences The slag inclusions have been shown to disperse corrosion to an even film, enabling the iron to resist pitting. The slag separated, and floated on the molten iron, and was removed by lowering a dam at the end of the trough. The cast iron had to be melted quickly and the slag to be rich in manganese. This process causes the slag to puff up on top, giving the rabbler a visual indication of the progress of the combustion. Shingling expels slag and welds shut internal cracks, while breaking off chunks of impurities. Some of the materials used are clay, shale, sand, iron ore, bauxite, fly ash, and slag. The Aberfan disaster in 1966 buried a school in South Wales when a huge slag heap collapsed, killing 116 children and 28 adults. Later a mixture of coal tar and ironworks slag, patented by Edgar Purnell Hooley as tarmac, was introduced. Once all the steel has melted, slag forming agents, such as limestone, are added. Spatter cones are formed by accumulation of molten volcanic slag and cinders ejected in a more liquid form. Our man knew her enough to know she was a sea of flesh, unsightly badly drawn slag tags and a cheap dress two sizes too small. Also, there are no obvious differences in the proportion of tewel pieces with attached slag in the two furnace types. Archaeomagnetic intensity spike recorded in high resolution slag deposit from historical biblical archaeology site in southern Jordan. General Kinematics all new dry slag cooling conveyor eliminates popcorn slag, pans and apron conveyors. It does seem to be a knee-jerk reaction to slag off all politicians and call them a waste of space and money. Cups, saucers or even lavatory bowls or sinks are placed in saggars to protect them from dirt and slag. The fertiliser on which the girl was working was said to consist of bone meal, dried blood, sulphate of ammonia, basic slag, and meat meal. This study indicated that suitably processed nickel slag was environmentally, mineralogically, and physically stable. Some people have worked here for years and they've been thrown on the slag heap. The three-kilometre Miners' Trail runs through Jubilee Woods, a former colliery and slag heap, making use of its slopes, humps and bumps. Show More Sentences Lidl-alike baked bean discounts and you're probably somewhere in the real North, shopping between visits to the slag heap to pick coal. Charcoal remains from an Iron Age copper smelting slag heap at Feinan, Wadi Arabah. I remember seeing kids going door-to-door begging for coal, men digging for coal on the local slag heaps. They were using a smaller vessel up to last year which sailed from Langton Dock near the famous slag heaps. After Usain Bolt's alleged criticism of Glasgow 2014, Sir Chris Hoy has been sent to Jamaica to slag off the acting in Cool Runnings. The song where I appear to slag off Rita and Jourdan is very much the same premise as Cheryl Tweedy. Loci rich in slag, tuyere and furnace fragments are referred to as industrial5, while those rich in organic material are 'domestic. Because of the expanding properties of aluminium slag, the mixture can be used in building subfloors, blocks and pre-moulded panels. The remaining cryolite slag is removed from the surface and the molten composites were cast into a mold. The vanadium may also be recovered as vanadium pentoxide slag and contribute further to Project revenue. Deoxidizers are used by the steel industry to control oxygen content in the steel making process, and as a slag conditioner. Their exteriors, embedded with rough copper slag from a mine 70 miles away, echo the patina known as desert varnish on the petroglyphs. Under PSR conditions, like in electroslag remelting, slag on basis of fluoric calcium, oxides of calcium, aluminium, magnesium, etc. In addition, in case of use of unrefined fluoric calcium as a slag, content of nitrogen in the ESR ingot is even lower than in the VAR ingot. Smelting makes use of heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving just the metal base behind. The company mines titaniferous magnetite ore at its Mapochs mine and produces iron and steel products and vanadium-bearing slag at its steelworks in Mpumalanga. It is embarrassing when people come to the house and slag off the work. The puppets of politicians can spout off the same nonsense, slag off the Tories and the state of the town, blame Margaret Thatcher for everything else. Teifion Tom Felix You all slag off the AMs most of you probably can't even name yours, never mind make an informed comment on how hard working they are. We were treated to film of gas works, sewerage plants, slums and slag heaps accompanied by verse which gave the impression of a city devoid of any redeeming feature. Show More Sentences I am old enough to remember the stinking smoldering slag heaps of West and South Yorkshire, they have all gone, and quite right too, flattened aftter the Aberfan disaster. Technical assistance services for the design and implementation of environmental improvement works and odor treatment of the WWTP of the slag heaps. A TOTAL of 144 people, most of them children, died on October 21,1966 when they were buried by a coal slag heap at Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Your room has a view of the last slag heap in the north of England. Iron bloomery slag was also frequently found in the project area and the ore probably also came from the Kounov coal seam, in the form of pelosiderite. Tourists are discovering the resultant transformation of the Ruhr region from slag heaps and smoke-belching ugliness to a green, leisure-based landscape. This contract consists of the removal, treatment and recycling materials from slag produced by the energy plant of the Intermunicipal Walloon Brabant Virginal. All these properties are determined by slag composition and its temperature. In basic slags, foaming ability increases as SiO2 concentration grows. Then calcium oxide combines with silicon dioxide to form a liquid slag. Despite living near a giant slag heap and the brooding presence of the Dorman Long works, Joan had a childhood filled with nature helping Old Dobby tend to his allotment. The channel has been made considerably narrower by dumping ship's ballast and ironworks slag along the former banks, increasing the scouring due to its natural flow. The iron is recycled on site, leaving a mixture of graphite and slag. Once all the steel has been tapped, the slag is skimmed away. Products which incorporate limestone, fly ash, blast furnace slag, and other useful materials with pozzolanic properties into the mix, are being tested and used. The carbonate is calcined in situ to give calcium oxide, which forms a slag with various impurities present, and separates from the purified iron. Smelter slag and other residues contain significant quantities of metals. While some remains of the mining industry still form parts of the landscape in the form of overgrown slag heaps, today's Herzogenrath has moved into other industries. This alkaline island contains within it an acid island, where acid boiler slag was deposited, which now shows up as a zone dominated by heather, Calluna vulgaris. The pots were removed after about 3 hours in the furnace, impurities in the form of slag skimmed off, and the molten steel poured into moulds to end up as cast ingots. Another study has shown that slag inclusions are pathways to corrosion. Show More Sentences The molten steel contains a large amount of dissolved gases so when the liquid steel hit the cooler surfaces of the liquid slag the gases were liberated. The resultant slag is drawn off and spun to form the rock wool product. At Laskill, an outstation of Rievaulx Abbey and the only medieval blast furnace so far identified in Britain, the slag produced was low in iron content. A slag hole, located higher up on the cylinder of the furnace, and usually to the rear or side of the tap hole, is opened to let the slag flow out. In the best-preserved smithy in Scandinavia, fifth-century AD Gene in Central Norrland, there were plenty of charred bones, some burnt into the slag, in one of the hearths. Dissolved in slag single or complex ion may be located in them. Tundish slag entrainment at Bethlehem's Burns Harbor slab caster. Examples from Classical Literature If there is an adequate supply of clay and sand in the refuse to combine with the ashes, the slag will run hot and free. Because, at the foot of the tree, as if broken off the stone, fragments of slag were found. When I pick up my marbles I look around for either an Elysium field or a slag heap but instead a creep is staring down at me. We had not yet completed our observations and Cap decided he would try the top of the slag heap. The new chemistry claims that not a little of the precious ore is cast upon the slag heap. He walked fearlessly between the workshops, and climbed to the top of a slag heap. To three parts of blast furnace slag are added one part of hydraulic cement and enough water to give the proper consistency. Such a slag not only corrodes the furnace lining, but also impedes dephosphorization, because it is irretentive of phosphorus. The basic slag, kainit, and superphosphate may be also applied at the seasons mentioned, if considered desirable. Tommy motioned me to keep my eye on the V-shaped cutting in the slag below us. It was also found that a manganese compost did not increase production when phosphatic manure was applied as basic slag. In the end I might leave one gleaming flake or so amidst the slag heaps for a moment of postmortem sympathy. An artificial product which serves perfectly as a pozzuolana is granulated blast-furnace slag. The slag solidifies into a hard stone which is broken up and used for making concrete and tar-paving, also for road metal. Earlier in this chapter I said that the slag, or aluminum oxide, from the thermit process was an almost useless product. Mr Britten in 1876 patented a process for the manufacture of glass from blast furnace slag. The first long-drawn exhaust of the dinkey engine moving the slag kettle out to its spilling place ripped the silence. If the scorification has been unsatisfactory, the quantity of silver obtained from the slag will be by no means inconsiderable. Next pour into the scorification mould, and, after the slag has set, remove it with a hammer. The separation of the slag and iron is facilitated by throwing in some lime from time to time. Show More Sentences Next the metal is covered with a very basic slag, made by melting lime with a little silica and fluor spar. This cement is made of limestone and clay, or marl, chalk, and slag. Now the surface was a lethal desert of slag and rolling clouds. In 1870, a youth sat upon the slag heap of a mine in California. To gauge the metal content in its slag waste, the metalcaster sent a sample for testing to Didion International Inc. In road building, slag of ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy is one of the most popular wastes which are increasingly widespread with every year. Experienced growers prefer a small quantity of basic slag or bone meal. Everywhere was the same blackened, cooling, ferruginous slag. The phosphatic slag from this process is used as fertilizer. The excess of slag is allowed to run off by the chio or floss hole. Cuff said the dictionary was slag, manchet, oorveeg and handboei. I shall fire some rockets from the slag heap to-night about ten o'clock. Of these, oyster or marine shells, burnt shale, and slag are most common. Great heaps of slag and dumps of cinders loomed up on each side, with the high shafts of the collieries towering above them. Topics include the effect of quartz powder on the strength and shrinkage of alkali-activated slag cement, and carbonized rice husks for wound healing. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of slag? Words that rhyme with slag What is the past tense of slag? What is the plural of slag? What is the adjective for slag? What is the noun for slag? Translations for slag Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words slade slacktivism slacks slack off slackness slackly slagged slagging slaggy slain slake slaked 4-letter Words Starting With s sl sla