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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Slag \Slag\, n. (Metal.) A product of smelting, containing, mostly as silicates, the substances not sought to be produced as matte or metal, and having a lower specific gravity than the latter; -- called also esp. in iron smelting, {cinder}. The slag of iron blast furnaces is essentially silicate of calcium, magnesium, and aluminium; that of lead and copper smelting furnaces contains iron. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cinder \Cin"der\ (s[i^]n"d[~e]r), n. [AS. sinder slag, dross; akin to Icel. sindr dross, Sw sinder, G. sinter, D. sintel; perh. influenced by F. cendre ashes, fr L. cinis. Cf {Sinter}.] 1. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct. 2. A hot coal without flame; an ember. --Swift. 3. A scale thrown off in forging metal. 4. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano. {Cinder frame}, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. {Cinder notch} (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cinder n : a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [syn: {clinker}]
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