biosolidn.
/ˈbʌɪəʊˌsɒlɪd/, U.S. /ˈbaɪoʊˌsɑləd/ A solid organic substance remaining after an industrial process; (now usually) spec. the solid matter remaining after sewage treatment, often used as fertilizer in agriculture (cf. sludge n. 2). Usually in plural.
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1965 Water Pollution Control & Abatement: Hearings before Subcomm. (88th U.S. Congr. 1st Sess. House Comm. Govt. Operations) viii. 4231 The third section is a quiescent section in which biochemical action continues and biosolids are settled.
1977 Chem. Week (Nexis) 23 Mar. 16 The effect of 1983 pollution control standards were top concerns for papermakers... More information is needed on the over-all environmental impacts of..the removal of colloidal biosolids.
1997 F. R. Spellman Dewatering Biosolids i. 4 Thus, sludge..has been properly renamed, biosolids—a term or name that is more fitting and more truly reflective of its true value.
2008 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 13 June b5/2 Lots of ‘stuff’ gets into our water from human activity, metabolic excretion..and runoff from land-applied biosolids (a great euphemism if there ever was one).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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