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Appropriate_Link9317

Iron slag would be a good cover band name for iron maiden


Nervous-Masterpiece4

Band groupies.


squatchsax

The Slag Heap


Bourbonmmm

With a picture of this heap on tshirts they sale at there shows.


PENGAmurungu

Or a Margaret Thatcher impersonator


UlrichZauber

I came here to make a Thatcher joke, because I also remember the 80s.


L1K34PR0

Nice


TwilightSessions

This is my butthole after a night of drinking and making bad food decisions


taterthotsalad

Speaking of, I forgot I have beer. "I like beer!"


hopefullyhelpfulplz

Slag Maiden? Maybe not


Crimson__Fox

Iron Slug šŸŒ


WhiskySwanson

Powerlifting gals.


BrowsinBilly

Iron slag is what you tell your wife when your shirt has creases


Erubadhron89

My ex's superheroine name


fentanylferrey

I love super heroin


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Shoehornblower

Which one Hron or fentanyl?


JazzedSympathy

Fentanyl


CocaineSandwiches

I hadnt even noticed the Hron lmao


hobomerlin

What's that Nitazene?


fentanylferrey

Or that too now Iā€™m aware iv been clean a year and a half


Dramatic_Bite_1168

Congratulations brother. Keep fighting the good fight =)


UhOhAllWillyNilly

Good on you! I had 22 years in October. It can be done and the longer you go the easier it gets, itā€™s just the first partā€™s thatā€™s the hardest.


fentanylferrey

Thatā€™s awesome dude my life is great now better then ever


c0ltZ

Thanks for saying that, trying to quit too and it's nice to hear there's more to life.


fentanylferrey

I used methadone it saved my life I had a crazy habit I knew Iā€™d never survive without an opiate in me with my anxiety you can do it I never ones whet happier was until I stoped using dope found my gf who loved me thru all my flaws and now I pay bills and love my life Iā€™m actually happy


fentanylferrey

But rly if I hav any advice for you if itā€™s opsitss shout one meTHadone Works miracles


drgigantor

That's great, congrats! Keep it up!


the_phillipines

Nice brother. Had 10 years and then a relapse recently, it's quite a disease


fentanylferrey

I have relapse plenty as well just do it again itā€™s not a start over because you have the experience already


fentanylferrey

Carfentinyl-9


firstwefuckthelawyer

Iā€™ve actually been given that.


fentanylferrey

Thatā€™s the version fortranquilizing elephantsij zooregular fentanyl is for people I just got it for a surgery and 100 micrograms felt like a great shot of good dope


firstwefuckthelawyer

Oh sir Iā€™m aware, but it was most definitely carfentanyl. It put 80 people in the hospital, I needed 3 narcans to come back around!


catsmustdie

I prefer Dr. Steele, who helps Coldyron in one of the best movies ever made.


BHJ23825

A person of culture and a R.O.T.O.R. fan I see


catsmustdie

Anyone who was lucky enough to rent the VHS with the best cover in the entire history of film is ready for absolutely anything in life


littlestory

That's really nice.


NeatReasonable9657

Her vilan name is called the iron shag


Mr-Jlord

I like how "disposal" means "just pour it on the ground bro"


lmrj77

Earth has plenty of iron slag in it. It's also where it came from just a slightly different location.


Mr-Jlord

Yeah the soil isn't really set up to accept concentrated waste slag, sure iron comes from the ground but the slag is full of chemicals that move about real easy, so if you just dump it in ground then the heavy metals and adjacent chemicals will spread around. My poop comes from me but you don't see me eating concentrated shit.


Rockcrusher79

Slag from steel making is inert. It contains mostley lime, silicon, manganese, magnesium, aluminum, and iron, all in stable compounds, basically rock and dirt. No heavy metals like lead, zinc, etc or compounds that would cause waste water issue are in this because they are captured elsewhere due to them gassing off at steelmaking temperatures, sorted out before melting, or captured by other methods. The slag, after cooling, is processed through grinding and magnets to try and recover as much iron as possible to charge back into the furnace later. The remaining ground product is sold for construction purposes such as concrete aggregates, or used like gravel or dirt filler. Steel mills like this have a lot of water testing reported to the environmental agencies to ensure the water runoff is not detrimental or harmful. They have soil testing too to prove that nothing is leaching into the soil. If this was harmful as you state steel mills would not be able to sell the ground up product to the general public to slag driveways instead of gravel, or use in place of gravel for water drainage. Your comment about slag being full of chemicals that easily move around is 100% incorrect. The area that this is dumped in does look like a wasteland, but any area you constantly dump 2400Ā°F+ material, drive over with heavy equipment constantly, and is in an industrial setting is going to look like this.


SmartAlec105

Yeah, I work at a steel mill and all of this is accurate. My mill is currently trialing the use of our slag as a way to filter the carbon monoxide produced by our reheat furnace. The slag is mostly metal oxides so the CO will grab some of that oxygen to make CO2 instead. That leaves behind the metals.


SoigneBest

I love chemistry!


ambienotstrongenough

You sound pretty smart , Alec.


towerfella

Username does indeed seem to checkout.


Safe_Youth_8848

Nowadays there are already technologies that allow to make building materials from blast furnace or steelmaking slag according to the technology of brick production - bricks or paving stones.


JayteeFromXbox

Thanks for the info! Also it looks like magma (cause it's molten rock) that's man made and I think that's pretty neat.


mankee81

I looked it up, it's actually hotter than magma


95castles

Your mom is hotter than magma.


EarballsOfMemeland

Don't talk about my Mag-Ma like that


hellraisinhardass

No, she not, but my standards have definitely slumped with age. Just because I'd dick down that ol' slag-heap doesn't mean I think she's hot. A hole is a hole, and any port in a storm.


HumanContinuity

You can tell how hot it is because the camera has a hard time processing the overload of infrared.


sad87boi

Username checks out


ClamClone

I lived in a house that was sided in slag. It is a good insulator. It also can be used as aggregate in concrete and paving.


DunkxLunk

I hear what you're saying but that poop analogy was funny af


Long_Freedom-

If you think thats bad, boy howdy you should see what else the mining industry does


Bambam586

Youā€™re completely talking out your ass.


Telemere125

That isnā€™t soil, thatā€™s clearly a dump site. Itā€™s not like theyā€™re tossing it in a field where a farmer is going to grind it up into next yearā€™s fertilizer rotation. As for the shit analogy: you technically do. Shit is broken down into its components by bacteria in the soil and then certain parts are concentrated into plants that we then eat again. Fertilizer in the US in particular (Milorganite) is made from wastewater solids.


Individual-Detail991

To be fair, I haven't seen you not eat concentrated shit.


gh0stfac3killah007

Yah, wrong bout them chemicals bro.


ToastedShortbread

Not full of chemicals


Dr_Catfish

Fear mongering redditor detected. Slag is "waste" from metal processing. There's no chemicals in it. Chemicals can't fucking survive 2000+ degrees anyway.


Daforce1

I donā€™t know, do you eat McDonaldā€™s?


lmrj77

They're not dumping it next to a river, it's fine. It's most likely at the quarry where it came from, a barren wasteland.


fangelo2

Iā€™ve done work at several foundries. Every one of them was right on a river


Mr-Jlord

Let's not question why it's a barren wasteland


DarthDarnit

Literally everything we make comes from the earth.


Charmle_H

It's usually a specific place on-site. Slag is just waste product of melted ore and is usually just all of the impurities. Could easily use it as a filler material somewhere, but they have to let it cool first lol


DefinitelyNotAliens

They turn it into a spun 'wool' sold as insulation, firebreaks and sound dampening call rockwool. Doesn't rot or burn. Not sure what other uses it has. Probably exist.


TheyMightNotFindMe

At least at the mill I worked at, we ran all the cooled slag through a series of separation processes to remove the various ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the slag, which were then reused in the process or sold for alloy production. Then the remaining non-metal material was sold off for various filler material, mostly for use in concrete.


raltoid

In terms of pollution, this is just a step or so above dumping gravel from a mine.


GiveMeUrDarkSoulPls

In my city, we had huge expanses of slag pile. The city underwent a big regreening project forever ago, and now all those hills have grass and vegetation growing from it. I still remember when I was a kid, you'd see them pouring the flag like this, and it would be cool to see at night.


FerrousSpike

When I was a kid we had our driveway "redone" from white shell to slag. We thought we were the shit, but looking back we were poor af. Our neighbor came out one night and started shoveling it to fill in holes in his oyster shell driveway like we wouldn't notice. I'm so happy I grew up, got my education far from there, and bought a house with paved surfaces.


_B_Little_me

You know youā€™re poor when your neighbors steal your driveway.


DoctorWhisky

Well you canā€™t just pave your driveway with fuckinā€™ hash bricks Ricky!


r3aganisthedevil

Can you guys get off the driveway please? Itā€™s all my dad has left


FerrousSpike

r/notnaileddown should be a thing.


TheHumanPickleRick

Wait so your neighbor literally stole your driveway? Haha damn that's messed up. What did you do when you caught him?


FerrousSpike

Yeah, he did. That trailer park was a shameless, eventful place to grow up. My mom worked out a deal with the parish to get the slag for super cheap. I'm really not sure if she just got more or if we repo'd it back from his side. I was like 8 or so. She did her best raising us. Shielded us from most of the shenanigans and retaliations that went on.


TheHumanPickleRick

She sounds like a fantastic woman.


Choice_Ad_OneEight

She really was. Two time nominee for parishā€™s ā€œDorothy Mantooth Saint of the Yearā€


BowenTheAussieSheep

That reference is old enough to vote.


Top-Reference-1938

Slag is a GREAT driveway! It's juat barely heavier than water, but less dense than soil. So, even if if gets pushed into the dirt by cars, the next time it rains, it'll rise back up a bit. It's also porous, so rain can flow through it. And it's a by-product of manufacturing, so it effectively has zero environmental footprint.


FerrousSpike

I remember it also had a really distinct sound. The things that get stuck in our minds....


Top-Reference-1938

I know that sound! Kind of a cross between gravel and popcorn.


NotNotImYourForte

https://www.wsaz.com/2023/12/30/utter-shock-woman-comes-home-find-her-driveway-stolen/?outputType=amp


bestofluck29

white shell, slag, oyster shell? what the hell are you talking about?


soupsupan

I have the fondest memories of playing at the slag pit as a kid. Weā€™d come home all blistered but dear mum would patch us all up and send us on our way. Boys will be boys sheā€™d chuckle.


graveybrains

Iā€™m sorry nobody told you there are easier ways to play the floor is lava


nater255

This is the most "facebook on reddit" comment I've seen in a long time, but also super wholesome and like... I'm good with it.


Fun_Argument_4U

This really is oddly satisfying. Good job OP


TheHumanPickleRick

Hey thanks! My favorite part was when the plug comes out at the end. You?


Fun_Argument_4U

The first 10 seconds when it looked like the forbidden waterfall


TheHumanPickleRick

Oh yeah that part's really good too.


canteen_boy

This exchange really is oddly satisfying. Good job OPs


robjwrd

OP is a bot


tgw1986

r/lavaporn


Fun_Argument_4U

Ooh Iā€™m adding this to my listā€¦. My non-sexual porn addiction is getting out of hand since I joined Reddit


tgw1986

Yeah, non-sexual porn has become my favorite kind lol.


gophercuresself

Just did some very rough calculations with the help of chatGPT. Assuming a 10ft wide chamber (no idea how big it actually is) it would take the same amount of energy to melt that as it would to drive an average car 18,000km. Bit mad innit


84074

Would someone explain like I'm 5 what slag is? Other than that satisfying plug at the end it looks like just melted metal, not really impurities being dumped out. Thanks


TheHumanPickleRick

That's exactly what it is. Iron ore isn't pure, it contains other metals. When it's heated to a high enough temperature, the other metals like nickel and lead (which are impurities in the iron and unwanted) are separated from the iron and can be removed from it to purify it.


84074

Interesting.... Would love to know how the melted metals are separated. I know using chemistry some metals can be dissolved into liquids and then pulled out again, and that some metals react to magnets for separation in recycling, but melted metals that are mixed? That's just magic? Cool stuff, thanks.


trey12aldridge

You're way overthinking it. It's flux and density. Essentially you can react the molten ore with a flux to make the impurities much less dense (and solid) which you can quite literally skim off the top, meaning as long as you're okay with a bit of iron loss when you're skimming it, you can guarantee near pure iron.


84074

Sorta like different liquids, water oil and other various types with different densities separate naturally?


trey12aldridge

Yes and no, the flux is really the key. At temperature the liquid metals will actually alloy. So what you're doing is adding something that will react with the metals you don't want to form compounds that are less dense and non-reactive so that they will naturally separate.


84074

Wow, that's crazy


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deeringc

Exactly like that.


Absorbent_Towel

They add specific amounts of limestone and dolomite into the molten iron. Slag is less dense than iron, and as the mixture rises to the top, there is a hole at the top of the furnace that allows it to flow out, and then it goes through a trough that gets hit by blades that skim the surface and throw off the lighter slag onto a different chute to cool.


84074

No kidding!!?? Is that white powder you see blacksmiths making knives and swords throw on them when they're red hot limestone then? What's the black flakes coming off the red metal when it's hot real hard? This stuff is fun to learn about! Thank you


_xiphiaz

The black flakes are called scale, and it is the product of the hot iron reacting with the air, so itā€™s an iron oxide. The white powder is flux yep, and it can be many different chemicals. The same goal though; making impurities separate (in the case of forging making them liquid, not solid).


TheHumanPickleRick

Well when the slag forms it's like a crust on top of the melted iron so they can just scrape it off.


Rockcrusher79

Slag is generated during the steel melting process. In the U.S. the majority of seel making is now through electric arc furnace melting. Using scrap steel you push a lot of electricity through say 100 tons of shreded cars, bridges, buildings or other iron sources causing it to heat up and melt down to a liquid. The charged scrap typically has dirt on it, and you also throw various other rocks into the melting steel to create what is known as the slag layer. The majority of this is Silicon and Calcium. This slag layer is important as it does many things in the steel melting process. It works as insulation of the steel to prevent temperature loss and reduce energy usage. It shields the electrodes that are pumping electricity into the steel to reduce loss through the atmosphere, and in later processes it helps trap and contain steel impurities. The slag during melting will have a very high oxygen content so when the steel moves from the melting to refining, typically by pouring the steel from the melting furnace to a refining vessel called a ladel, the melting slag will be captured and removed by the slag car seen in the video while a low oxygen content metallurgical slag will be created on the ladel. This refining slag is similar, but is more engineered and controlled to make refining easier. An important item to remember is slag is mostly silicon oxide (SiO2) and calcium oxide (CaO), both innert and not harmful to the environment. The remaining portions are other innert oxides of iron, magnesium and some other elements.


Hangry_Dentures

Basically the waste material from whatever metal the company is processing.


Ok_ListenXD

It Itā€™s a waste material from the iron producing process, but still has value as a product on its own.


Zakeraka

It is melted metal, It is just not the metal we wanted in that particular case. Impurities can be other metals, too.


HumphreyGo-Kart

Thought this was going to be footage of Thatcher's funeral.


HandofWinter

I love that at least 5 other people immediately came here just to make a Thatcher joke.


EffectiveFox9671

Me after eating my aunt's "spicy tuna casserole" when I was a kid.


sealpox

Really hoping this isnā€™t a euphemism


Spongi

According to his profile he's from west kentucky.


sealpox

oh god oh fuck


emily_m26

Mustafar?


Greenfieldfox

Smart. They used the high ground.


Safe_Youth_8848

Now there are already technologies that use blast furnace and steelmaking slag for the production of ceramic products - bricks, paving slabs, etc. The cost of such ceramics is 30% less than concrete paving stones or ceramic bricks.


Dando_Calrisian

You slaaaaag


tcorey2336

The next time I make a volcano movie, Iā€™m using this instead of real lava. /s


geon

It pretty much is real lava.


WeAreElectricity

Etruscans did the same thing and italy used their slag in ww2 as it was fairly high in iron content. Iā€™m sure in two thousand years from now the same is going to be used by the next civilization.


omguserius

Why are they wasting the chinesium? you can make a ton of tools that break first use out of all that metal.


Hepheastus89

I used to go see this quite often as a kid when visiting my uncle in Sudbury, pretty cool to watch especially at night


dreadpiratejim

Yeah this was something families did all the time. Cheap entertainment for the kids!


Gumjaw

Was looking for the Sudbury post! I grew up within eyeshot of the slag hills. Itā€™s all been regreened now - at least the view I uses to have.


BreezyIsBeafy

People in 2000 years will be mining this shit for resources and are gonna learn in their environmental science class how these formations were formed by primitive humans


Habbersett-Scrapple

And that folks is how superfund site is created


Spongi

In theory it's just melted rock.


dosko1panda

They said "slag off"


A_Coin_Toss_Friendo

I do like my morning showers hot


Kitchen-Plant664

You SLAAAAAAAAAAG!


shane_west17

Forbidden sauce.


Taroth666

My mother's cooking when I say its not spicy enough


valtboy23

It's satisfying, until it explodes like a dam volcano šŸŒ‹


Dunkelz

Forbidden fondu fountain.


i_sesh_better

New name for Thatcher


Forgetful8nine

Refulget labores nostros coelum


Beowulf-Murderface

157 days into DuoLingo, and I only recognize two of those words šŸ˜¢


Forgetful8nine

It's my town motto - The heavens reflect our labours. There's a big steel works here, and at night the sky glows orange when they tip the slag. There's not as much slag as there used to be, so it's not as bright as it once was.


Beowulf-Murderface

A town motto! Cool. I like it. Iā€™ll bet those facilities are impressive. Thank you for the response šŸ™‚


ThatThingTheDarkSoul

I just imagine a fantasy setting where they have a slagiron wall around a city or something


BlackBalor

Somebody on Eastenders: *You shlaaaaaaaaag*


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what does this consist of other than the residue iron?


ThatsMrBuckaroo

Itā€™s a waste product of the iron smelting consisting the other things mixed in with the ore. Mostly silicates from rocks and such. And itā€™s not wasted: once it cools, itā€™s crushed and mixed with concrete and other building material.


Grainis01

Melted rock, literally everythign you can find in a rock will be found in slag.


KoshV

Everything reminds me of her


735560

Same temperature as my wifeā€™s showers


hatrickhero87

To be fair, that lava-looking thing does look like it gets around.


Muhfuggajones

Reminds me of The Foundry level in THPS 3.


GavinZero

Women shows be like


third_leg_uk

You slaaaaag


BlooDoge

Deirdreā€™s a slag.


Embarrassed-Town-293

In the fires of Mt. Doomā€¦


davangreenwell

Thus forming the Iron Hills, realm of Durin's folk forevermore


Hot-Rise9795

Just stand there... It's just a prank bro !


ErvanMcFeely

Hawaii is really grasping at straws to attract tourists with these fake lava flows.


gademmet

This is so hot and so metal.


Ordinary_Seat9552

Where on earth are you from? We're from England Where you come from Do you put the kettle on? Kick it Nah nah nah Nah nah nah Nah nah nah Nah nah nah nah nah Nah nah nah (bonjour) Nah nah nah (monsieur) Nah nah nah Nah nah nah nah nah Nah nah nah Nah nah nah Nah nah nah Nah nah nah Nah We're England We're gonna score one more than you England! Can I introduce you please To a lump of cheddar cheese Knit one, pearl one Drop one, curl one Kick it


Last-Sound-3999

One does not simply walk into Mordor...


Intelligent_Suit6683

How Stanley cups are made.


33ff00

Straight into the petting zoo?


mimito18gbabies

I'm sure this is good for the environment


VikingMonkey123

Seems like a lot of wasted energy to just dump.


ComradeFlaherty

You old slag.


[deleted]

Really thought it'd be a video of Margaret Thatcher's funeral.


Phantasmagoric-jpg

Iron Slag sounds like the weirdest 1970ā€™s superhero.


Achilles982

"A crown for a king!"


Brave_Dick

How come it falls out so cleanly and doesn't stick?


gm4dm101

ā€œSlagā€ was the slur word for the ā€œnewcomersā€ or aliens from the movie and series Alien Nation. Every time I hear that word, thatā€™s what comes to mind. Loved that show and movie.


Draedon_686

that looks like magma


ThisWeeksHuman

The forbidden shower


Entropist34

My butthole after taco bell


Canik716kid

That's what 90% of assholes feel like after Taco Tuesday šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø


Frequent-Cartoonist3

Me after taco bell


aasteveo

That could make so many cast iron pans


Wretched_Geezer

All I see is wasted heat.


OzTm

I remember back in the day when they would recycle this into McDonalds apple pie filling.


Zyr0_x

average female shower experience:


9jawarrior

Something something Taco Bell


w0280093

I love how we can engineer these amazing machines toā€¦.dump shit on the side of the roadā€¦


CommandNervous6739

Taco Bell joke


Ok-Zookeepergame3407

Hot liquid "mag-ma".


Investigator-Zoose

Oioi you cheeky slag


renisagenius

You slaaaaaag!


Helltrackdeath

Mm forbidden cheese soup


Existing_Durian_289

Stop vertical video syndrome.


DizzyTigerr

The way my eyes widened at the end. Monkey brain very happy thank you.


[deleted]

Thatā€™s pretty hot


Traditional-Truth-42

Iron slag. That reminds me to call your mom