slurry

plural slurries

1. countableuncountableAny flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.

   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.

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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.

   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

2. countableuncountablebusinessLiquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.

   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

3. countableuncountableagricultureA 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.

   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

4. countableuncountablecookingA thickener.

present singular third person slurries · participle present slurrying · participle past slurried · past slurried

1. To make a slurry (of some material).
2. To apply a slurry (to).

   Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.

comparative slurrier · superlative slurriest

1. Slurred, tending to slur.

   He spoke with a slurry voice.

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   His voice became progressively slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.