slurry
verbEtymology Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.
1
To make a slurry (of some material).
2
To apply a slurry (to).
- Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.
slurry
nounUK /ˈslʌ.ɹi/ · US /ˈslʌ.ɹi/
Etymology Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.
1
Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- 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:
2 more examples
- 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:
- 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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Business, Mining Liquid 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:
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Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle 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.
- 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:
- Derived terms
- beslurry, coal slurry, meat slurry, slurry bomber, slurry pit, slurry wall