What's the difference between scoria and volcano?

Scoria


Definition:

  • (n.) The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.
  • (n.) Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scoria (volcanic cinder) was most effective in excluding roots of crested wheatgrass and streambank wheatgrass.

Volcano


Definition:

  • (n.) A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That suggests they are being replenished by sulphur dioxide, most probably from volcanoes.
  • (2) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
  • (3) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
  • (4) On the edge of Goma, in the shadow of the active Nyiragongo volcano, Mugunga hosts some of the 30,000 people who fled their homes following the upsurge of fighting that began in April.
  • (5) "Previous eruptions there are not well characterised, because it's such a poorly-known volcano.
  • (6) Over the weekend, forecasters fed the dispersion model with data on the amount of ash being churned out by the volcano.
  • (7) The principal investigator, Matthew Watson , a former UK government scientific adviser on emergencies and now a Bristol University lecturer, says the experiment is inspired by volcanoes and the way they can affect the climate after eruptions.
  • (8) She said: "First they suffered greatly in the civil war and now they are forced to flee their homes by a volcano."
  • (9) Astronomers have spotted the most distant galaxy ever seen after a faint ray of light struck a telescope on a volcano in the middle of the Pacific.
  • (10) But he said: ‘Don’t worry, we’ll find him a position.’ So they played him as a centre-half.” Volcano!
  • (11) For our last three days, we do a northern triangle of hot spots – whale watching at Húsavik, swimming at Hofsós infinity pool and the volcanoes of Mývatn .
  • (12) Energyhelpline describes the retail market as being "like a volcano about to blow".
  • (13) That shadow bears a subtle but clear similarity to the silhouette of one of Mexico City’s volcanoes, the Iztaccihuatl – also known as La Mujer Dormida (“The Sleeping Woman”).
  • (14) Perched some 11,000ft up a volcano, the Mauna Loa observatory has been measuring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since 1958.
  • (15) As the volcano continued to belch smoke above the town, people dusted off the ashes and rebuilt the North Kivu capital.
  • (16) "We have 100 million people living in places that are prone to disasters, including volcanoes, earthquakes and floods," said Dody Ruswandi at the government's national disaster management agency (BNPB).
  • (17) While the experiment may not harm the climate, environmental groups say that the global environmental risks of solar geoengineering have been amply identified through modelling and the study of the impacts of sulphuric dust emitted by volcanoes.
  • (18) This is the state reaping rewards for years of policy … [It may be] that officials are going further than Beijing expects, but that this is working on top of what is already a volcano."
  • (19) Throw Martin Demichelis into an active volcano?” 2.35pm GMT 33 mins A corer to City.
  • (20) So-called mud volcanoes are pretty common along this Makran coast, and elsewhere they are often found to have enigmatic teleconnections with large earthquakes.