basic slag

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   slag produced in making steel; low in silica but having large amounts of calcium phosphate; useful as fertilizer

   Broaderslag

Questions about basic slag

What does basic slag mean?

basic slag means "slag produced in making steel; low in silica but having large amounts of calcium phosphate; useful as fertilizer".

Is basic slag a common word?

basic slag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.