Scoria: alternatives and connections

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. B…

The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.

A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.

a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product…

a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product…

A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.

A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining s…

The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of fa…

to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prosp…

Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless.

Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.

Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.

The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.

An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, fo…

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores.

A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is…

A vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.