debris vs tailings

debris

noun
  • Litter and discarded refuse. 

  • Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc. 

  • Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed. 

  • The ruins of a broken-down structure. 

tailings

noun
  • 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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