Slurry

A slurry is a mixture of denser solids suspended in liquid, usually water.

The most common use of slurry is as a means of transporting solids or separating minerals, the liquid being a carrier that is pumped on a device such as a centrifugal pump.

The size of solid particles may vary from 1 micrometre up to hundreds of millimetres.

The particles may settle below a certain transport velocity and the mixture can behave like a Newtonian or non-Newtonian fluid.

Examples of slurries include: To determine the percent solids (or solids fraction) of a slurry from the density of the slurry, solids and liquid[7] where In aqueous slurries, as is common in mineral processing, the specific gravity of the species is typically used, and since specific gravity of water is taken to be 1, this relation is typically written: even though specific gravity with units tonnes/m3 (t/m3) is used instead of the SI density unit, kg/m3.