Meaning & use
spalls
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Small fragments or chips broken off from a larger piece of rock, ore, or masonry.
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Spalls of concrete littered the ground after the wall collapsed.
Miners collected spalls of ore that had broken away during blasting.
A note on using this word
As a verb, 'spalls' describes the process of stone or concrete breaking off in flakes, often due to weathering or corrosion of embedded metal.
Words with a similar meaning
chipsfragments
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Breaks off in small fragments or flakes.
The concrete spalls badly wherever water has seeped into cracks and rusted the rebar.
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