Meaning of Slurry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
   countable, uncountable
2. Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
   countable, uncountable
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable
4. A thickener.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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