Talk:Slag

message: * just a short comment. Slag is not only produced by metallurgy industry, but is also coming from coal fired power plants. In some countries that is the mayor part of industrial waste. 11:34, 19 October 2005 User:217.40.27.9
::This should be referred to as fuel ash.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:15, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No necessarily metal oxides,  Commonly SiO2 is a major constituent.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:15, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No clue - removed the link, if someone had a reason then put it back (and explain relevance here please). Vsmith 00:31, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Early comments

message: If you are using 18,000 lbs lime a heat and reduce it to 14,000 a heat and the lime in the slag goes up. Why does this happen?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slag101 (talk • contribs) 02:20, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: "basic slag must contain at least 12% total phosphoric acid (P2O5)" – the chemical formula if fishy. Phosphorus pentoxide reacts with water violently, so this is probably an error. Vadim Makarov (talk) 08:32, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Wizard191 (talk) 14:54, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Error?

message: One use of slag I didn't see mentioned is road treatment. Where I live they used to spread it on roads in advance of winter weather to improve traction. I don't know if it's still used for that purpose anywhere, but as school kids we loved to hear "the slag trucks are out" on the news because it meant no school tomorrow.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SquareWave (talk • contribs) 16:02, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Other uses

message: The volcano article on Tuff mentioned that small-scale tephra (volcanic ash) is "slaggy" and linked to Slag. Can any more to be said about that here, such as what in particular makes them "slaggy"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.151.125.209 (talk) 06:56, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Volcanic slag

message: There are a number of types of slag, derived from different metallurgical processes.  Some are glassy; others are not.  I do not feel this article yet provides an adequate coverage.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:12, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment 

message: Occasionally one reads stories of pieces of slag sold at exorbitant prices as pieces of meteorite.
Old_Wombat (talk) 09:52, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illegal use of slag ! 

message: Steel slag + Carbon Dioxide = Precipitated Calcium Carbonate.  78.149.18.53 (talk) 22:59, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uses 

message: Hello everyone. My name is Kiera Tran. I will be editing this Slag Wikipedia as my WikiProject in this semester. Please talk to me if there is something that we are disagree about during my editing period. Thank you! Ntran75 (talk) 18:01, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject 

message: The article completely fails to mention that slag is a common British pejorative slang term for a promiscuous and sexually unselective woman, broadly equivalent to slut in American English usage (slut mostly retains its original meaning of a lazy or slatternly woman in BE). See The Fat Slags. --Ef80 (talk) 16:42, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally irrelevant to the subject. If there was an article about the slang usage ... then maybe a disambig link would be justified ... but there is none. Vsmith (talk) 03:11, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Vsmith Then, why not create one that redirects to slut ? 85.193.252.19 (talk) 00:26, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

text: Of course it's not 'totally irrelevant'. We should at least have a one line link at the start of the article, perhaps directing readers to slut, though the meaning of that is somewhat different in British English. As things stand, non BE readers are going to find 'slag' in British material and are going to come here to find out what it means. There is nothing to enlighten them at present. --Ef80 (talk) 11:26, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Ef80 Though English is not my first language, it became my hobby. But, when possible, I use American English. I knew the word "slut" very well, but had no idea about the slang usage of "slag" in British English. I discovered your deleted post by accident, and thought immediately: Why is there no disambiguating link in the article? But, the more important question was: Why has your post been deleted? The User:Wtshymanski's revert summary was: "" But this is only partially true, because the biggest problem is with the very name of the subject. A reader has every right to be informed about other meanings of an article title, especially when one of those meanings is unexpected. After all, what are disambiguating links for? 85.193.252.19 (talk) 21:47, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a disambig hatnote linking to slut. --Ef80 (talk) 16:26, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Silently reverted by our friend User:Wtshymanski, who appears to have WP:OWN issues with this article. I don't need grief like this over such a trivial matter, so am walking away. --Ef80 (talk) 11:29, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

text: Ï've put this back. Nothing "unlikely" about the term if it's in widespread use elsewhere online - possibly more so than the original meaning. 66.102.87.40 (talk) 13:20, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slang usage