Residue vs Sludge - What's the difference?
residue | sludge |
Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
(chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
(legal) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
(mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
A generic term for solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
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, title= A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.
(uncountable, music) sludge metal
(informal) to slump or slouch.
to slop or drip slowly.
As nouns the difference between residue and sludge
is that residue is whatever remains after something else has been removed while sludge is a generic term for solids separated from suspension in a liquid.As a verb sludge is
to slump or slouch.As an initialism SLUDGE is
a mnemonic ("salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal upset, emesis") used to identify the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome.residue
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* nonresidue * quadratic residue * residual * residuaryAnagrams
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(wikipedia sludge)Noun
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.