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scoria [score-ee-a] Noun 1. Geol a mass of solidified lava containing many cavities 2. refuse left after ore has been smelted [Latin: dross]
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how planted upon this once scraggy scoria of a country? Some of the interior valleys are strewed with scoria and broken stones, evidently of volcanic origin; the surrounding rocks bear the like character, and vestiges of extinguished craters are to be seen on the elevated heights. The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoria. |
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