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slurry

  • noun
  • /ˈslʌ.ɹi/

Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.

Other meanings

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

  2. 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.

A kind of

  • suspension

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “slurry” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.