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Slurry

/ˈslʌ.ɹi/ · noun

Meaning

Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid..

Definitions by Sense

  1. Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
  2. (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
  3. (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.
  4. (cooking) A thickener.
  5. To make a slurry (of some material).
  6. To apply a slurry (to).
  7. Slurred, tending to slur.

Example Sentences

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 probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry.
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.
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.
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.
Slurry tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for slurry tailings.
In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry.
Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.
He spoke with a slurry voice.

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Related Words

muddymuckmiremushbroomsludgeditchguttersewagemanuredirtgroutingoozefertilisergroutsiltslimeoreloamslam

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What does slurry mean?

Slurry means Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid..

What is a synonym for slurry?

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What is the opposite of slurry?

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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 probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry.

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