Meaning of Sloughing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something sloughed off.
2. The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.

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“As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste⟳ products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow⟳ to a settling tank for removal.”

“If all sloughings were successfully recorded, which is not certain since rattle segments were not color-coded during this study⟳, the interval between events averaged 246.1 days (1.5 sloughings per snake per year).”

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