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Fluid vs Slurry - What's the difference?

fluid | slurry |

As nouns the difference between fluid and slurry

is that fluid is any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma while slurry is any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.

As adjectives the difference between fluid and slurry

is that fluid is of or relating to fluid while slurry is slurred, tending to slur.

As a verb slurry is

to make a slurry (of some material).

fluid

English

Noun

(wikipedia fluid)
  • (physics) Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid , which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

    Derived terms

    * amber fluid * brake fluid * fluid mechanics

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
  • In a state of flux; subject to change.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
  • (of an asset) Convertible into cash.

    • Related terms

    * fluctuate * fluency * fluent * flux

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    slurry

    English

    Etymology 1

    Unclear; probably related to (etyl) ; compare slur. From mid-15th c. (wikipedia slurry)

    Noun

    (slurries)
  • Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
  • * 1981 , National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products , page 26,
    • While little information is available, it[distillers wet yeast] probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry .
  • * 2002 , R. Peter King, Introduction to Practical Fluid Flow , page 81,
    • The most important application of fluid flow techniques in the mineral processing industry is the transportation of slurries'. Whenever solid materials are in particulate form transportation in the form of a ' slurry is possible.
  • * 2006 , Mark A. Shand, The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia , page 146,
    • Magnesium hydroxide slurry' consists of an aqueous suspension of particulate magnesium hydroxide. The principle sources of '''slurry''' are from seawater- or brine-produced magnesium hydroxide, natural brucite, or from the slaking of magnesium oxide powder. Magnesium hydroxide ' slurry is gaining in popularity as a replacement for caustic soda and lime in waste-water treatment applications.
  • * 2011 , Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press staff (translators), Advanced Well Completion Engineering , page 259,
    • The other properties of cement slurry' and set cement are also related closely to cement ' slurry density.
  • (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
  • * 2006 , Raymond N. Yong, Catherine N. Mulligan, Masaharu Fukue, Geoenvironmental Sustainability , page 145,
    • Slurry' tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for ' slurry tailings.
  • (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.
  • * 2004 , W. H. Rulkens, 11: Overview of resource recovery techmologies for biowaste'', Piet Lens, B. Hamelers, Harry Hoitink, Werner Bidlingmaier (editors), ''Resource Recovery and Reuse in Organic Solid Waste Management , page 249,
    • In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry .
    Derived terms
    * coal slurry * meat slurry * slurry pit * slurry wall

    Verb

  • To make a slurry (of some material).
  • To apply a slurry (to).
    • Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slurred, tending to slur.
    • He spoke with a slurry''' voice.'' — ''His voice became progressively '''slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.