sludge

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By the time the sludge is a barrel of processed synthetic crude, it has produced 187 pounds of carbon dioxide, three times as much greenhouse gas as a traditional barrel of oil.

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  1. noun Semisolid material such as the type precipitated by sewage treatment.
  2. noun Mud, mire, or ooze covering the ground or forming a deposit, as on a riverbed.
  3. noun Finely broken or half-formed ice on a body of water, especially the sea.
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  • That's another reason, besides the smoothness of the ground, that we use only that end of the island for that —it's downwind from the settled part, and the sludge is awfully smelly when it's fresh. —  Clement, Hal - Needle.htm
  • MSN Wonderwall Aggregates Celebrity Slop - Microsoft has dipped its toes in some pretty bizarre tidepools over the years (remember Actimates?) but the latest might more accurately be described as a sludge pool: celebrity gossip. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • And to the right, there is the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant, better known as the sludge plant, treating sewage from all around the region. —  Pat Dollard | Young Americans
  • By the time the sludge is a barrel of processed synthetic crude, it has produced 187 pounds of carbon dioxide, three times as much greenhouse gas as a traditional barrel of oil. —  Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
  • A recent law discontinued this process, and now the sludge is treated (we hope) and sold as fertilizer. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
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slime ·  sewage ·  silt ·  wastewater ·  manure ·  ooze ·  garbage ·  pollutant ·  compost ·  sediment ·  effluent ·  refuse
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  1. Perhaps alteration of dialectal slutch, mire.

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  1. A variant of slutch (as grudge of grutch), this being a variant of slitch, sleech: see slutch, sleech. Cf. slud and slush.
 

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