Sediments synonyms

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sludges
Any heavy, slimy deposit, sediment, or mass, as the waste resulting from oil refining, the mud brought up by a mining drill, the precipitate in a sewage tank, the sediment in a steam boiler or crankcase, etc.
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deposits
Anything left behind on a surface.
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precipitates
A solid material precipitated from a solution.
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trashes
The refuse of sugar cane after extraction of the juice.
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grits
The texture or fineness of sand or stone used in grinding.
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alluvia
Sand, clay, silt, etc. gradually deposited by moving water, as along a riverbed or the shore of a lake
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sands
Any of the colors characteristic of sand, variously reddish yellow to grayish tan
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powders
A dry explosive mixture, such as gunpowder.
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silts
A sedimentary material consisting of grains or particles of disintegrated rock, smaller than sand and larger than clay. The diameter of the particles ranges from 0.0039 to 0.0625 mm. Silt is often found at the bottom of bodies of water where it accumulates slowly by settling through the water.
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residues
Residue is a small amount of something that is left behind.
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refuses
Anything thrown away or rejected as worthless or useless; waste; trash; rubbish
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wastes
Waste is matter excreted from the body, or unwanted or discarded matter.
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slags
Slag is waste matter separated from metal during smelting.
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scums
The refuse or dross of molten metals.
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scoriae
(Metallurgy) The refuse of a smelted metal or ore; slag.
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residua
(Chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
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hypostases
(Med.) A deposit or sediment
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craps
A losing first throw at craps
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precipitations
The amount of this
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wholes (antonym)
An entity or system made up of interrelated parts:
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leftovers (related)
The definition of leftover is something that remains after an initial serving or after initial selections have been made.
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Sediments Sentence Examples

  • The mountain structures originated in three great orogenic periods, the earliest in the Archean, the second at the end of the Palaeozoic and the third at the end of the Mesozoic. The Archean mountain chains, which enclosed the present region of Hudson Bay, were so ancient that they had already been worn down almost to a plain before the early Palaeozoic sediments were laid down.

  • The marine-part of the Lafayette is probably covered by sediments of later age.

  • As in other comparable cases, this figure does not make allowance for the oblique attitude in which the sediments were deposited, and should not be construed to mean the vertical thickness of the system.

  • The Mesozoic sediments were almost entirely laid down to the west and south-west of the protaxis, upon the fiat-lying Palaeozoic rocks, and in the prairie region they are still almost horizontal; but in the Cordillera they have been thrust up into the series of mountain chains characterizing the Pacific coast region.

  • The ridges and intervening valleys, long parts of which have an approximately parallel trend from south-west to north-east, were formed by the erosion of folded sediments of varying hardness, the weak belts of rock being etched out to form valleys and the hard belts remaining as mountain ridges.

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