slurry

IPA: sɫˈɝi

Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
(mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
(agriculture) 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.
(cooking) A thickener.

Examples of "slurry" in Sentences

For rice flour or slurry is used.
From slurry expression of address ...
Slurry pipelines use a slurry of water and pulverized coal.
In the process, the paper is pulped to form an aqueous slurry.
The wet web is formed from the slurry and the web is then dried.
Oxygen is introduced to the leach slurry to assist the oxidation.
The remainder of the slurry oil is pumped through a slurry settler.
A fuel slurry and engine systems for using the slurry are disclosed.
A slurry of unrefined dispersion is continuously fed into the tube to fill it.
Froth or foam bubbles float to the surface of the slurry carrying ink particles.
Here is the pot of hot and sour soup just after being thickened with eggs and a thin slurry of cornstarch.
In practice, the term slurry is used for the digester content or the digested substrate flowing out of the plant.
On flat roofs they are laid much like floor tiles but usually get a thin slurry of cement (not concrete) that supposedly seals them.
Too bad nearby farmers are now losing their ancestral farm houses and fertile rows of corn to longwall mining and more coal slurry is slated for their aquifers.
The Associated Press has found that several Appalachian states “let coal companies inject slurry into abandoned mines” but “none track exactly how much slurry is pumped underground” or examine its chemical composition.