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Meanings of dross in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "slag"
Examples for "slag"
1
The area's main exports are smelted iron slag, bone meal, and misery.
2
The ore slag lay like gray powder flakes strewn down the cliff.
3
Add the slag to that from the coarse copper fusion, and powder.
4
Behind the school, on the slag heap, you name it, he says.
5
I dove again, strafing and then spinning away from their return slag.
1
The practically trained eye could see the scoria which indicates the defective welding.
2
We climb mountains over scoria that frays and lava that burns.
3
Crater Lake, with Wizard Island, a post-caldera collapse basaltic scoria cone.
4
Rings of pale-coloured scoria may be due to tin, zinc, antimony, or arsenic.
5
We passed through a lane of black scoria, with steep banks on both sides.
Usage of dross in inglés
1
Away from the mega-dross, it was, in fact, a fine 12 months.
2
You feel a different person, as if much dross were sloughed off.
3
The lead should be melted first and all the dross cleaned off.
4
The dross must be tested to ensure it is safe for removal.
5
They say rolling stones gather no moss; but they gather dross sometimes.
6
Step into the fire, and let it burn the dross from you.
7
Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.
8
Earthly crowns are dross to him who looks for a heavenly one.
9
These were those golden strains from which all mortal dross seems purged.
10
But remember, I have told you that gold is nothing but dross.
11
If wet, the dross could create a dangerous cloud of ammonia gas.
12
At the time the country's wine industry was churning out dross.
13
Others, more nuggetlike, featured knobs or jagged protuberances-recentlywashed free of stony dross.
14
The dross had been burnt up in the flame of war.
15
He takes the dross for the pure gold, the phantom for the reality.
16
Not a sparkle of the ore they sought; all was dross.
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United Kingdom
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