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Meanings of scoriae in English

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Usage of scoriae in English
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This rule does not apply to craters composed of lava and scoriae.
Volcanic Islands
2
They remain thirty or forty years without emitting scoriae, ashes, or even vapours.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
3
You walk over blackish scoriae encrusted with brazen bolts and particles of melted glass.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
4
The solid matter thrown out by volcanoes consists of lapilli, scoriae, dust and bombs.
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
5
We ascended the Piton by grasping these half-decomposed scoriae, which often broke in our hands.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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The column of cinders, of scoriae, of broken rocks and earth, had wholly ceased to ascend.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
7
In a bed of scoriae several acres in extent, at Old Land Farm in Maresfield, the Rev.
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
8
There should be mountains of scoriae, the dross and relics of our abandoned sins, around us all.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
9
Now, the part of ejected scoriae and ashes seemed to my mind a very rough one to act.
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
10
The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoriae.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
11
Along these fissures, in a few days, scoriae cones appeared; on one occasion no less than thirty-six in number.
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
12
Hence the numerous heaps of scoriae found in the neighbourhood of Leeds,-atMiddleton, Whitkirk, and Horsforth-allwithin the borough.
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
13
Occasionally a part of the wall might even go black, into pock-marked scoriae or into brilliant planes of obsidian.
The Vortex Blaster
14
Its entrails are strewn about; nearly the entire surface of the ground is covered with cinder-heaps and mounds of scoriae.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
15
But now the clear flow of pure metal into the moulds was secured, while the scoriae were mechanically held back.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
16
Myriads of tons of ashes, cinders, pumice and scoriae, hurled from the crater, fell in every section of the island.
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
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