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BASIC SLAG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slag produced in making steel; low in silica but having large amounts of calcium phosphate; useful as fertilizer
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Hypernyms ("basic slag" is a kind of...):
dross; scoria; slag (the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals)