Slag vs. Slaw — What's the Difference?

Slag is the glass-like by-product left over after a desired metal has been separated (i.e., smelted) from its raw ore. Slag is usually a mixture of metal oxides and silicon dioxide.

Coleslaw.

The vitreous mass left as a residue by the smelting of metallic ore.

Coleslaw.

See scoria.

Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.

To change into or form slag.

Basically shredded cabbage

Waste material from a mine.

Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.

Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.

Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.

Scoria associated with a volcano.

A coward.

A contemptible person, a scumbag.

A prostitute, or a woman who acts like one; a slut.

(transitive) To produce slag.

(intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.

(transitive) To reduce to slag.

To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).

To spit.

The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.

The scoria of a volcano.

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.

To form, or form into, a slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.

The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals