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effluent
[ef′lo̅o̅·ənt]
a liquid, solid, or gaseous emission, such as the discharge or outflow from a machine or an industrial process.
effluent [ef´floo-ent]
something that flows out, especially a discharge that carries waste products.
effluent
waste from an abattoir carried away in liquid form. Disposal is a major problem because of the need to avoid pollution of waterways. See aerobic effluent treatment, anaerobic effluent treatment.
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United Utilities, which brought the prosecution, is now calling on businesses to remember the law in relation to trade effluents.
FINED FOR BREAKING WASTE LAW by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Certain customers also benefit from bespoke effluent treatment services at the state of the art Bran Sands facility on Teesside, which also includes the region's largest reception and treatment facility for tankered industrial effluents.
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Both effluents induced vitellogenin synthesis in both life stages studied, and the magnitude of the vitellogenic responses paralleled the effluent content of steroid estrogens.
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