It has occurred to me that perhaps TechCrunch pays insufficient attention to slurry, sediment, silt, sludge, mud, and muck; to canals, earthworks, levees, dikes, dredges, and the Army Corps of Engineers; to the vast engineering works, with lifespans measured in decades, that literally reshape our world.
After torrential rains, the retaining wall of the holding pond, on a hillside, collapsed around 8 a.m. on Monday, the news report said, sending a wall of sludge and mud hurtling down into the village of Yunhe.
In this epic scene of sludge and mud marked by the bloody streaks of red girders painfully thrusting a new life into the old ground, an empty cavernous space yawns below the busy building site – a glimpse of hell.
In Mumbai, in the upscale (or so they say) neighborhood of Bandra, I have walked on sidewalks layered with a sludge of mud, composting garbage, and human and animal excrement.
For the last three years he has been the host of "Dirty Jobs," the gross-out cable hit on the Discovery Channel, a gig that has exposed him to untold tons of sludge, sewage, mud, manure, detritus, excreta, road kill and plain old nastiness.
Candidatus Caenarcanum bioreactoricola ("Caen.arc.an.um" L. neut. n. caenum mud, sludge; L. neut. n. arcanum secret, hidden; N.L. neut. n. Caenarcanum a bacterium hidden in sludge. "bio.re.ac.to.ri.co.la". L. suffix -cola inhabitant, dweller; N.L. masc.
When they returned five days later, she described the house as "very smelly, and full of mud and sludge".
In this study, response surface methodology (RS M and artificial neural network (ANN) were employed to develop prediction models for lead removal from industrial sludge leachate using red mud.
Industrial by products, such as metal hydroxide sludge, fly ash, red mud and bio-solids, can be used as low-cost adsorbents for MG removal.
All non-gaseous products such as char, tar, and aqueous condensates are mixed together to a single, free-flowing slurry, pasty mud, or sludge stream.
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