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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Barren or submarginal rock or ore that has been mined, but is not of sufficient value to warrant treatment and is therefore removed ahead ofthe milling processes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: WASTE ROCK |
| English words defined with "WASTE ROCK": Gobbing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WASTE ROCK": boobey ♦ dead rock ♦ handpicking, hydraulic filling ♦ method of working ♦ ore car ♦ rock filling ♦ subaqueous disposal ♦ tunnel right ♦ waste filling, waste-filled stopes. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Part of the Blackbird Mine site, the Bucktail drainage basin. This image shows contaminated waste rock and tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Contaminated waste rock at Blackbird Mine. Note the erosion gulleys. The waste rock has been stabilized as part of the remediation. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | More contaminated waste rock in gulleys. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A view of Bucktail drainage basin. An open pit in the upper right hand area. Waste rock deposited throughout the basin. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Waste rock piles. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-o-r-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: casework, seatwork. | |
-2 letters: coaster, coaters, rackets, restack, restock, retacks, rockets, stacker, stocker, tackers, wackoes. | |
-3 letters: actors, arkose, carets, cartes, casket, caster, castor, caters, coarse, coater, corset, costae, costar, coster, cowers, crakes, crates, creaks, croaks, escort, escrow, korats, oaters, ockers, orates, racket, rawest, reacts, recast, rectos, resoak, retack, rocket, sacker, scoter, screak, scrota, sector. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-o-r-s-t-w" | |
+3 letters: cabinetworks, latticeworks, weathercocks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 41 53 54 45 52 4F 43 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 00100000 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W A S T E   R O C K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0041 0053 0054 0045 0052 004F 0043 004B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5735535439252493745 |
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