Sediments synonyms
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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.
Anything left behind on a surface.
A solid material precipitated from a solution.
The refuse of sugar cane after extraction of the juice.
The texture or fineness of sand or stone used in grinding.
alluvia
Sand, clay, silt, etc. gradually deposited by moving water, as along a riverbed or the shore of a lake
Any of the colors characteristic of sand, variously reddish yellow to grayish tan
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A dry explosive mixture, such as gunpowder.
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.
Residue is a small amount of something that is left behind.
Anything thrown away or rejected as worthless or useless; waste; trash; rubbish
Waste is matter excreted from the body, or unwanted or discarded matter.
Slag is waste matter separated from metal during smelting.
The refuse or dross of molten metals.
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scoriae
(Metallurgy) The refuse of a smelted metal or ore; slag.
residua
(Chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
hypostases
(Med.) A deposit or sediment
A losing first throw at craps
The amount of this
wholes (antonym)
An entity or system made up of interrelated parts:
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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Find another word for sediments. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sediments, like: sludges, deposits, precipitates, trashes, grits, alluvia, sands, powders, silts, residues and refuses.