Slag Abrasive
The dark grey banded particle is a particle of copper slag
abrasive used to "sand blast" a rusted cast iron sturcture.
Definition/Function:
Blast furnace slag abrasive may be brown, colorless, gray, green, blue. or orange. The
color is normally
from the iron content in the glass. There may be magnetite inclusions but that is an
undesirable impurity and tends to be very rare in slag used
as an abrasive.
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