The slimes and gums that cement soil particles into relatively stable aggregates are formed by microorganisms as they consume soil organic matter.
As they eat organic matter they secrete slimes and gums that firmly cement fine soil particles together into long lasting aggregates.
Also tailings pits should be made, in which the tailings and slimes are allowed to settle, and the cleared water is pumped back to be again used.
Break off the stem of one close to the bowl and fill the hole with well worked clay (some battery slimes make the best luting clay).
It is well not to leave the sluicing for too long a period, as when the slimes and tailings are set hard they are difficult to remove.
The slimesare treated chemically for the separation of the metals contained in them.
After well washing with water, the slimes are roughly dried in bag-filters or filter-presses, and then treated with dilute sulphuric acid, the solution being heated by steam.
A considerable portion of these slimes may, by good management, be worked up into starch by elutriation and straining.
The ore, on issuing, deposits its rough in the first basin, and its slimes in the following basins.
The slimes are freed from the lighter mud in the trunking-box, figs.
Mining) Defn: To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
Mining) Defn: A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Mining) Defn: The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing.
A large nest of similar shelves, set close to, and parallel with, one another, can separate out a great quantity of well-dried slimes in a very short space of time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slimes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
