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Six example sentences with scoria, each labelled with its topic.
The founder skims scoria off the crucible before pouring, or the bronze will set with gray freckles across the face.
Art
Iron towns left hills of scoria that farmers plowed around for a century before anyone hauled it away.
History
Builders in the valley crushed scoria into their mortar, which gave the finished walls a dark speckled tone.
Architecture
Scoria forms when hot metal meets the air, the surface oxidizing faster than the melt beneath can be stirred.
Science
Sensors at the steel plant watch for scoria building on the ladle, and a robot arm skims it before the pour.
Technology
Old scoria heaps behind the ironworks still leach iron into the brook, tinting the stones orange for a mile.
Environment
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