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A truck-mounted apparatus is capable of blending liquid/liquid or liquid/solid constituents in a high capacity blending operation, and the apparatus achieves a high degree of versatility in the introduction of materials into a blender apparatus (10) for discharge from either or both sides of the truck or other vehicle. A closed loop system (12) permits suction of liquid materials as well as discharge of mixed materials from one or both sides of the truck, and is capable of flushing or other pumping operations as well. Moreover, the closed loop system (12) includes a pump (62) as a part of the closed loop system which, together with the blender (10), is operable off of a common drive, such as the power transmission train of the truck. The blender permits isolated injection of liquids and/or solid constituents through separate inlets, by means of dynamic seal, a first inlet (20) causing liquids to be introduced tangentially so as to swirl through a downwardly divergent annular chamber and the second inlet causing the materials to be introduced more in an axial direction through an impeller (16) which imparts a centrifugal force to drive the materials outwardly into the swirling stream of liquid.
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