slurries
slurries is the plural of slurry.
slurries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slurry.
Meaning of slurry
Noun
slurry (countable and uncountable, plural slurries)
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- While little information is available, it probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry.1981, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products, page 26
- 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
- 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...
- A thickener.
Questions about slurries
- What is slurries the plural of?
- Slurries is the plural of slurry.
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