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Friday Rock Blogging: Slag

Category: Rock Blogging
Posted on: April 11, 2008 7:06 AM, by Maria Brumm

Coal doesn't burn completely. Here's what's left over.

slag-thinsection.jpg (Do I apologize for the weak blogging? No! No apologies! I am still trying to work "elusive", "obsequious", and "vapid" into a discussion of bedrock hydrogeology. "Propinquitous", though, that's taken care of. Also, I am contemplating cheesy steganography.)

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1

Aw, there are prettier pictures of slag than that!

Pretty slag pics and more pretty slag pics

Posted by: Ellery | April 11, 2008 10:11 AM

2

Oooh, those are pretty!

Posted by: Maria | April 11, 2008 9:39 PM

3

I think that's a pretty neat picture of the old smelting or furnace building -or whatever old building that is- and the huge hill of slag around it.

Posted by: Silver Fox | April 13, 2008 12:24 AM

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