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thickening [′thik·ə·niŋ] (chemical engineering) The concentration of the solids in a suspension in order to recover a fraction with a higher concentration of solids than in the original suspension. (mining engineering) Concentrating dilute slime pulp into a pulp containing a smaller percentage of moisture by rejecting the free liquid. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The shadow thickening and thickening as he approached its source, he thought of the secrets of the lonely church-vaults, where the people who had hoarded and secreted in iron coffers were in their turn similarly hoarded, not yet at rest from doing harm; and then of the secrets of the river, as it rolled its turbid tide between two frowning wildernesses of secrets, extending, thick and dense, for many miles, and warding off the free air and the free country swept by winds and wings of birds. We laid up at a country woodyard about forty mile above Uncle Silas's place a little after one at night, and it was thickening up and going to storm. But with poor Tulliver death was not to be a leap; it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. |
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