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Glossary Soil / Term

Sludge

Solid residue of the wastewater purification process, a product of screening, sedimentation, filtering, pressing, bacterial digestion, chemical precipitation and oxidation; primary sludge is produced by sedimentation process and secondary sludge is the product of microbial digestion.

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