slurry
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
slurry
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- 1981, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products, page 26 ↗,
- While little information is available, it[distillers wet yeast] probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry.
- 2002, R. Peter King, Introduction to Practical Fluid Flow, page 81 ↗,
- The most important application of fluid flow techniques in the mineral processing industry is the transportation of slurries. Whenever solid materials are in particulate form transportation in the form of a slurry is possible.
- 2006, Mark A. Shand, The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia, page 146 ↗,
- Magnesium hydroxide slurry consists of an aqueous suspension of particulate magnesium hydroxide. The principle sources of slurry are from seawater- or brine-produced magnesium hydroxide, natural brucite, or from the slaking of magnesium oxide powder. Magnesium hydroxide slurry is gaining in popularity as a replacement for caustic soda and lime in waste-water treatment applications.
- 2011, Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press staff (translators), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 259 ↗,
- The other properties of cement slurry and set cement are also related closely to cement slurry density.
- 1981, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products, page 26 ↗,
- (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- 2006, Raymond N. Yong, Catherine N. Mulligan, Masaharu Fukue, Geoenvironmental Sustainability, page 145 ↗,
- Slurry tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for slurry tailings.
- 2006, Raymond N. Yong, Catherine N. Mulligan, Masaharu Fukue, Geoenvironmental Sustainability, page 145 ↗,
- (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
- 2004, W. H. Rulkens, 11: Overview of resource recovery techmologies for biowaste, Piet Lens, B. Hamelers, Harry Hoitink, Werner Bidlingmaier (editors), Resource Recovery and Reuse in Organic Solid Waste Management, page 249 ↗,
- In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry.
- 2004, W. H. Rulkens, 11: Overview of resource recovery techmologies for biowaste, Piet Lens, B. Hamelers, Harry Hoitink, Werner Bidlingmaier (editors), Resource Recovery and Reuse in Organic Solid Waste Management, page 249 ↗,
- (cooking) A thickener.
- Italian: liquame
- Spanish: licuame, licuamen
- French: purin, lisier
- German: Jauche
- Italian: purino, colaticcio
- Portuguese: chorume, esterco líquido
- Spanish: purín
slurry
- To make a slurry (of some material).
- To apply a slurry (to).
- Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.
slurry (comparative slurrier, superlative slurriest)
- Slurred, tending to slur.
- He spoke with a slurry voice. — His voice became progressively slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.
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