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Circulating head
A casing-to-drill-rod coupling. When attached to the top of the casing, it is used during the process of pumping cement slurries or circulating water through the casing, forcing the fluid to flow out of the casing into the drill hole between the outside of the casing and the walls of the borehole.
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- Part of Speech: noun
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- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
- Product: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, & Related Terms - 2nd Edition
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