Effluent vs Sludge - What's the difference?
effluent | sludge |
Flowing out; outflowing.
* Parnell
A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence.
Sewage water that has been (partially) treated, and is released into a natural body of water; a flow of any liquid waste.
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, title= 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 effluent and sludge
is that effluent is a stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence while sludge is a generic term for solids separated from suspension in a liquid.As an adjective effluent
is flowing out; outflowing.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.effluent
English
Adjective
(-)- Effluent beams.
Noun
(en noun)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
sludge
English
(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.