Physical Materials
- Concrete slab, a flat concrete plate used in construction
- Slab (casting), a length of metal
- Slab (geology), that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting
- Slab pull force, the tectonic plate force due to subduction
- Slab suction, one of the major plate tectonic driving forces
- Slab window, a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate
- Slab hut, a kind of dwelling made from slabs of split or sawn timber
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