slurry

CEFRB2

/ˈslʌ.ɹi/

noun

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noun
A thick mixture of liquid and small solid particles.
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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.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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

In context

The factory pumps coal slurry through a long pipeline.
Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.
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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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.
2002, R. Peter King, Introduction to Practical Fluid Flow, page 81
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.
2006, Mark A. Shand, The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia, page 146
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
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”, in Piet Lens, B. Hamelers, Harry Hoitink, Werner Bidlingmaier, editors, Resource Recovery and Reuse in Organic Solid Waste Management, page 249

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Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.