0 present participle of tail
1 to follow and watch someone very closely, especially in order to get information secretly:
Or water might be polluted with tailings and other detritus of mining, making it unsuitable for irrigating crops.
To avoid contamination from the site's industrial past (blue asbestos and foundry tailings) the vegetable garden has raised beds with specially prepared topsoil.
Adjacent to this depression and at an oblique angle from it, there was a small area covered with tailings from the temper-preparation process.
Because the model considers only equilibrium reactions, tailing of the breakthrough curves is not well predicted.
The leading edge is sharp and the following edge shows extensive tailing.
Uranium tailings are a by-product of uranium mining and arise at the site of mining.
The question of tailings and their storage and disposal is a matter for the uranium mining companies concerned.
So there is a little tailing-off procedure in the drafting.
