The phrase "a dross" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something regarded as worthless or of low quality, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The critics dismissed the film as a dross, lacking any meaningful content or artistic value."
Alternatives: "a waste" or "rubbish".
The effect is to oxidize the impurities, which rise to the surface and form a dross.
Gold's chemical stability is based on the relative instability of the compounds that it forms with oxygen and water a characteristic that allows gold to be refined from less noble metals by oxidizing the other metals and then separating them from the molten gold as a dross.
Updated at 11.35am BST 11.27am BST 14th over Netherlands 95-2 (Barresi 33, Cooper 4) This is a potentially crucial spell from Bopara, a dross of wide ones and slower runs making it sufficiently hard such that by the fifth ball, Barresi is chucking in a delivery stride feint.
The LD dross, on the other hand, provides a potentially gratis alternative source of aluminium as a dross producer expected to pay large amounts in order to landfill their aluminium dross and would be a free or a cheaper alternative to be rid of their waste.
Compounds are formed with bismuth that have higher melting points and lower densities than lead and thus can be separated as a solid dross.
Desilvered lead is freed of bismuth according to the Betterton-Kroll process by treating it with metallic calcium and magnesium, which forms a bismuth dross that can be skimmed off.
Understandably for a shop whose stock comes from a lot of house clearances, there's a lot of dross, with an almost unimaginable amount of Ja Rule's back catalogue clogging up the crates.
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It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago.
The process is known as "mining" because, like miners, those who take part have to sift a lot of dross before they find a valuable nugget.
