black liquor
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In April Tax Analysts looked at Henck’s allegations regarding the black liquor controversy.
From Forbes • Jun. 10, 2014
Critics cried foul, saying that burning black liquor was neither new nor particularly clean.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2013
But in 2011, the most recent year studied so far, nearly half of Maryland’s payments went to paper mills that have been burning a pulp residue called black liquor since the 1930s.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2013
The liquid material, which mill owner Temple-Inland Inc. refers to as "black liquor," effectively sucked the oxygen from a large section of the river, killing every breathing organism within its reach, including the fish.
From Reuters • Aug. 22, 2011
It is these ulmates that form the black liquor which oozes out from the manure-heap.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton
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