turbid


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Synonyms for turbid

having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended

heavy, dark, or dense, especially with impurities

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Synonyms for turbid

(of liquids) clouded as with sediment

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Figure 2 also helps in identifying that turbid waters are also present at the shores of Bulacan and Pampanga.
Visible in the image are turbid waters against dark sear from Bulacan and Metro Manila, showing large areas of high turbidity.
At pH 5.0, only one sample containing 16.7% thymol was clear after it had been heated at both salt concentrations, while other samples became turbid or formed gels.
Newly appointed Univision Communications CEO Vincent Sadusky has wasted no time putting his imprint on a swift plan of action to save what many market observers have labeled a sinking ship stranded in the middle of a turbid Spanish-language media sea.
Runoff and dumping from Lake Okeechobee in our region, on top of the silt propagated throughout the water column, makes it very turbid. Sight-fishing is usually out of the picture until the sediment has time to settle.
If it becomes turbid with a white precipitate it is silver because aluminium can neither become turbid nor can it precipitate
The new EZ-Fit filtration units come with a wide range of membrane sizes, and a new drain design to accelerate processing of turbid and hard-to-filter matrices.
Muddy, or turbid, water is considered pollution because it's harmful to fish, other aquatic life and habitat, according to the DEQ notice of civil penalty to Coburg Road Quarry.
The current issue contains the final part of our series dedicated to the music in Bohemia during the reign of Rudolf II, as well as the first part of the series focusing on far more recent, and far more gloomy, history: the musicologist Viktor Pantucek has immersed himself in the turbid and bizarre waters of the culture during the Stalinist epoch, whereby, under the banner and yoke of the socialist realism principles the cheerful arts were to administer the final victory of some and the final nail in the coffin of others.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: bruise; bruised; bruit; bruited; brut; brute; buried; burse; burst; busied; busier; bust; busted; buster; bustier; debur; debus; debut; disbud; disturb; DISTURBED; drub; druse; dude; duds; duet; durst; dust; dusted; duster; dustier; etui; rebus; rebut; redbud; rudd; ruddiest; rude; rudest; rued; ruse; rust; rusted; siddur; stub; stud; studied; sturdied; subedit; sudd; sued; suer; suet; suit; suite; suited; surd; sure; true; trued; tube; tubed; tuber; turbid; udder; used; user.
He alluded to the need for attention to maintenance work in these districts, and to irrigate crops using turbid, or treated water.
Due to the intensive agriculture that takes place in this region, nowadays most of these shallow lakes are in a turbid state, showing high phytoplankton biomass (hereinafter phytoplankton turbid shallow lakes) (Quiros et al., 2002, 2006).
He described the water, fed by industrial waste including residue from heavy metals and chemicals: "It's really turbid. It's really cloudy.