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scrap
a. waste material or used articles, esp metal, often collected and reprocessed
b. (as modifier): scrap iron
scrap [skrap]
(engineering)
Any solid material cutting or reject of a manufacturing operation, which may be suitable for recycling as feedstock to the primary operation; for example, scrap from plastic or glass molding or metalworking.
SCRAP - Something written at CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa in the late 1970s. It ran on Interdata and Perkin-Elmer computers and was in use until the late 1980s.

Scrap 

metallic raw material in the form of industrial waste and rejects, intended for remelting into usable metal.
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