Crossword-Solution: SCORIAE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scoriae | pl. | of Scoria |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCORIAE | anagram | CESARIO |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SCORIAE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lava and slag. | 1 answer |
| Waste materials | 1 answer |
| Worthless residue from melted metals. | 1 answer |
| Smeltery leavings | 3 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GTAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SCORIAE (5)
For a long way the soil was composed of a reddish sandy stone, something like crushed brick, scoriae, streams of lava, and pumice-stones.
The soil was still of the same volcanic nature; everywhere were traces of lava, scoriae, and basalt; but the crater which had vomited them I could not see.
Beyond the desert rise the lava flats, scoriae strewn; sharp-cutting walls of narrow canons; league-wide, frozen puddles of black rock, intolerable and forbidding.
Hence the numerous heaps of scoriae found in the neighbourhood of Leeds,--at Middleton, Whitkirk, and Horsforth--all within the borough.
The foot-blasts of the earlier iron-smelters were so imperfect that but a small proportion of the ore was reduced, so that the iron-makers of later times, more particularly in the Forest of Dean, instead of digging for ironstone, resorted to the beds of ancient scoriae for their principal supply of the mineral.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1951–1973).