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Metallurgy encompasses a wide range of processes including extractive metallurgy (techniques that extract metal from commercially viable sources: ore, scrap, intermediates, and metallurgical residues) and process metallurgy. Each generates many different types of by-products for which the descriptive terminology is often used interchangeably.

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Fox, M.A. (1999). Metallurgical By-Products. In: Glossary for the Worldwide Transportation of Dangerous Goods and Hazardous Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11890-0_48

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