🪨 Waste from metal 🔥 To make waste 🧹 To remove waste 💥 To damage badly

to slag

8.2

To remove the stony waste from the surface of metal when it is melted

verb
/slæɡ/

: retirar la escoria

The metallurgist learned how to slag the impurities off the molten iron during the refining stage.

Examples

To achieve a purer alloy, the workers must slag the mixture to remove all excess materials.
As the metal cooled, the team watched carefully to slag away any contaminants that had formed.
It's because you get into the rhythm of it and then you take it off, but you're also clearing the slag away from it.

Synonyms

to scum

vsto slag

1 8.9

To remove a dirty layer from the top of a liquid

is specific to molten metal refining rather than general liquids

Compounds

basic slag

Specialized

8.4

Material from making steel that farmers use as fertilizer

slag tag

Baby Talk

9.5

A children's game like tag where one child chases others

How Thorough

purge

Literature

6 7.1

to clear out

91 3.1

to slag

8.2

to skim

1 3.4

Surface Forms

slag infinitive

slags past

slagged past participle

slagging present participle

slags third person singular

Etymology

Slag as a verb for removing comes from the same old Norse slagg, 'waste' or 'scum', and a helpful image is skimming scum off a pot. So to slag in this sense means to take away that waste layer from molten metal.