slurry
noun
a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.
slurries
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pluralof slurry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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CMP is a critical process using chemical slurries and mechanical polishing to create perfectly flat, smooth wafer surfaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
"This is particularly attractive when we wish to quantify anisotropic crystal growth, such as that in aqueous solutions and slurries, in which crystals extend in the different crystal directions at different velocities," says García-Moreno.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
Before that, wild strains of yeast sometimes contaminated the slurries, causing “beer sickness” and gastrointestinal distress.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 26, 2023
Ash from the fire, which burned for more than a month, had clogged formerly pristine tributaries and turned them into black slurries.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2022
Lahars are slurries resembling wet concrete and consist of water, ash, rock fragments, and other debris.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
