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- adjective reduced to
scoria
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Examples
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We then turned eastwards or inland, ascended a Nakb (“gorge”), and saw, as before, the corallines and carbonates of lime altered, fused, scorified, and blackened by heated injections; the grey granite scored with quartz veins, running in all rhumbs; and the porphyritic trap forming crests that projected from the sands.
The Land of Midian 2003
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His beard an 'hyar wuz all nyawed off, an' his face an 'han's an' neck wuz scorified terrible.
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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The great sheets of lava, as in certain places in the Valley of Mexico, are of remarkable appearance on the face of the country, the scorified aspect seemingly little changed since the moment when the fiery sheet must have poured devastatingly down the countryside.
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919
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The dish with the dried residue is then scorified and the resulting button of lead is cupelled.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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But four charges of 2.5 assay tons (say 75 grams) are worked, and two of the resulting buttons are scorified together and then cupelled, etc., so as to give duplicate assays on charges of 5 assay tons.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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The whole of the "metallics" scorified and cupelled gave 0.842 gram of silver.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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The lead buttons should be hammered into discs with rounded edges, and be freed from slag; if too big for a cupel they may be scorified together in a small scorifier, but it is better to cupel them separately.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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His beard an 'hyar wuz all nyawed off, an' his face an 'han's an' neck wuz scorified terrible.
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We then turned eastwards or inland, ascended a Nakb ( "gorge"), and saw, as before, the corallines and carbonates of lime altered, fused, scorified, and blackened by heated injections; the grey granite scored with quartz veins, running in all rhumbs; and the porphyritic trap forming crests that projected from the sands.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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If the plants of Teneriffe do not reach the summit of the volcano, it is not because the perpetual snow and the cold of the surrounding atmosphere mark limits which they cannot pass; it is the scorified lava of the Malpays, the powdered and barren pumice-stone of the
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