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black liquor
noun
- (in making wood pulp for paper) the liquor that remains after digestion.
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The “black liquor,” as it is called, is then drained away from the rags, which are immediately subjected to a preliminary washing.
The black liquor from the boilers is pumped through tubes heated externally by high-pressure steam.
It is these ulmates that form the black liquor which oozes out from the manure-heap.
Then he scribbled on them with reeds dipped in a black liquor and gave them to his nurse to keep as useful books.
In one of the tin cups Beatrice pressed the juice from the nightshade, obtaining perhaps a tablespoonful of black liquor.
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