OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13722

slurry

/ˈslʌ.ɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
licuame • licuamen
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 i…
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 trans…
purín
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.
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