slaglessness
nounEtymology From slagless + -ness.
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Engineering, Metallurgy, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The quality of being free from slag.
- But the former lack the essential quality — slaglessness — which makes the latter steel, and the latter lack the essential quality — the hardening power — which makes the former steel.1906, Henry Marion Howe, Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys, page 174: