slime

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sludge | American Dictionary

sludge
noun[ U ]
us/slʌdʒ/
wet dirt, or any other thick, wet substance:
The dirty water left a layer of sludge in the bottom of the pail.

Examples of sludge

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Increased erosion also reduces the life of reservoirs, makes additional water treatment necessary and creates greater sludge disposal problems.
Farmers use different types of sludge, depending on preference and availability.
The development of filamentous bacterial structures leads to biological aggregates with low density and poor settling properties, usually called "bulking sludge".
The municipal authority frowns at this practice even though no alternative sludge treatment is available.
Quantification of different phylogenetic groups showed differences in the population structure between the supernatants and the settled sludge.
Huge amounts of organic materials are in the form of farm waste, city waste, sewage sludge, poultry litter and agro-industrial wastes1,2.
These include aerobic lagoons, activated sludge processes and trickling filters.
On-site sanitation: when the pits are full - planning for resource protection in faecal sludge management.
The footnotes to the table say that all the technologies incorporate a primary sedimentation tank and, for biological treatment, an activated sludge process.
We hear the truck, a struggle, a screaming man falling into an abandoned oil well, sludge being dumped into the hole.
The use of genetic engineering (included in excluded methods), ionizing radiation and sewage sludge is prohibited.
Again the eighteenth century is the sketchy before-picture, the primeval sludge out of which modern, industrial society emerges.
To minimise costs most sludges are dewatered but the final solids content achieved and the methods employed vary greatly.
The inoculum was a mixed population from the activated sludge tank of a waste-water treatment plant.
It is estimated that 426 truckloads, 6.75 m3 each, are deposited at the designated site annually, making a total of 2876 m3 of collected sludge.
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