plural slurries
: a watery mixture of insoluble matter (such as mud, lime, or plaster of paris)
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
The fires have been lousy for wildlife as well as humans:
Biologists were forced to rescue hundreds of endangered steelhead trout from the Santa Monica Mountains, before a storm arrived to bury them in a post-fire slurry of mud.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Here, the rocks are first broken down into chunks of gravel that are then mixed with water and crushed into a slurry.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
Not only have buildings been destroyed, but underground, melted plastic and a slurry of ash and debris threaten to end up in the maze of pipes that transport fresh drinking water, contaminating the municipal water supply.
—Hannah Singleton, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The dock will be used by a small tugboat and a barge with equipment to vacuum sand and pump it through a pipe in a watery slurry onto the shoreline from Pine Avenue to just north of Cannon Road.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
The fires have been lousy for wildlife as well as humans:
Biologists were forced to rescue hundreds of endangered steelhead trout from the Santa Monica Mountains, before a storm arrived to bury them in a post-fire slurry of mud.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Here, the rocks are first broken down into chunks of gravel that are then mixed with water and crushed into a slurry.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
Not only have buildings been destroyed, but underground, melted plastic and a slurry of ash and debris threaten to end up in the maze of pipes that transport fresh drinking water, contaminating the municipal water supply.
—Hannah Singleton, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Slurry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slurry. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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