Slush

When slush is called a mud-like mixture of a solid and a liquid. The word comes from the English slushed ice, which means something like " slush ice " means ( slush = silt ).

Geomorphology

In geomorphology, the term " slush " to refer to " moving " water-saturated snow used in the limits determined by periglacial permafrost. Thawed by the sun and possibly saturated by rain, slushes can occur either continuously flowing, and suddenly abrutschend.

Gas

The term is also applied to gases that have been liquefied by cooling to its melting point partly solidified and partly because the thereby resulting mixture of liquid and solid phase has a muddy, muddy consistency.

Nitrogen, is cooled to about -210 ° C, forms a nitrogen slush. It can be used for the blast freezing of objects, for example in the preparation for electron microscopy.

Fuel

Hydrogen cooled to -259 ° C in a slurry like state - slush hydrogen - passes, was considered in the space as a means to increase the energy density of liquid hydrogen. Because of greater handling difficulties due to the negative pressure (70 mbar absolute) one is, however, again largely dissuaded.