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Tailings
Meaning
Noun
●
plural of tailing
●
In Mining:
The
waste
that
remains
after the
minerals
have been
extracted
from an
ore
by
ore
dressing.
●
The
feints
, the last
fraction
of product
obtained
at the
end of
distillation.
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