Scoria vs Scorie - What's the difference?
scoria | scorie |
The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
(geology) Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 10:
As nouns the difference between scoria and scorie
is that scoria is the slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore while scorie is .scoria
English
Noun
(en-noun)- An excellent guidebook by Drs Kilburn and McGuire of University College London reveals that these unpromising pieces of debris are scoria and lithic fragments of the March 1944 eruption.