Scoria

Led by an ancient prophecy, hunting for revenge, the Salamanders Chapter are drawn to the ash deserts of Scoria, a world that has many secrets.

Books in the Mail (W/E 08/15/2009) RobB 2009

Led by an ancient prophecy, hunting for revenge, the Salamanders Chapter are drawn to the ash deserts of Scoria, a world that has many secrets.

Archive 2009-08-01 RobB 2009

Peter Freeman sold the artist's new sculpture, "Negative Wall Sculpture #5/Red Scoria," to an unnamed buyer for $850,000.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2008

Scoria is a ceramic-like rock that has been baked and cracked by heat from naturally-lit coal seams underneath.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

Depurate him from the _Fæces_ and _Scoria_ of this,

Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

Scoria were abundant, and large shapeless blocks of the black granite, intermingled with others of marl, {* 6} and both granulated with metal.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

Thus Iron and Copper by heating and quenching do turn all of them by degrees into _Scoria_, which are evidently _vitrified_ Substances, and unite with Glass, and are easily

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Next, That the Parts of all vitrified Substances, as all kinds of Glass, the _Scoria_ of Metals, &c. are very hard, and also very brittle, being neither _flexible_ nor _malleable_, but may by hammering or beating be broken into small parts or powders.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Substance, which I elsewhere shew to be the true cause of fire; and are thereby, as by several other _Menstruums_ converted into _Scoria_; And this is called, _calcining_ of them, by Chimists.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Atlas, Goliath and Titan are three vicious foes who won't make conquering Scoria Cove a walk in the park.

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