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  • Using a technique known as “froth-floatation,” a mining company in Alaska plans to extract new gold from a mine that has been closed for decades, but this technique would produce approximately 4.5 million tons of “slurry,” thick waste-product laced with toxic elements such as lead and mercury.

    Wonk Room » The Supreme Court Term In Review, Part I: The Environment 2009

  • Save your bleeding heart for all the Third World waste-product they helped eliminate.

    New Hillary Ad Stars Joe Wilson And Valerie Plame 2009

  • Now the ancients seem to think that it is a waste-product, for when they say that it comes from all the body by reason of the heat of the movement of the body in copulation, they imply that it is a kind of waste-product.

    On the Generation of Animals 2002

  • (By secretion or excretion I mean the residue of the nutriment, by waste-product that which is given off from the tissues by an unnatural decomposition.)

    On the Generation of Animals 2002

  • It remains, then, that it must be either a waste-product or a secretion or excretion.

    On the Generation of Animals 2002

  • A further proof that it is not a waste-product, but rather a secretion, is the fact that the large animals have few young, the small many.

    On the Generation of Animals 2002

  • For whereas they said that semen is that which comes from all the body, we shall say it is that whose nature is to go to all of it, and what they thought a waste-product seems rather to be a secretion.

    On the Generation of Animals 2002

  • For Gow it was just one human waste-product too many.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • Studies carried out by NCB have revealed that various low-volatile fuels which can be substituted for coke-breeze for the manufacture of cement by the VSK process can be grouped into natural fuels and by-product or waste-product fuels, as described below.

    4.1 Geological investigations 1993

  • That must be where all the city's waste-product goes, the gunslinger thought.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

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