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  2. Limescale - Wikipedia

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    Limescale is a hard, chalky deposit, consisting mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3). It often builds up inside kettles , boilers , and pipework, especially that for hot water. It is also often found as a similar deposit on the inner surfaces of old pipes and other surfaces where hard water has flowed.

  3. Microplastics Are in All of Us. Just How Bad Is That, Really?

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    The Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at UCSF offers additional tips to help minimize exposure to toxic chemicals, like those sometimes found in microplastics.

  4. Protected health information - Wikipedia

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    Names; All geographical identifiers smaller than a state, except for the initial three digits of a zip code if, according to the current publicly available data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census: the geographic unit formed by combining all zip codes with the same three initial digits contains more than 20,000 people; the initial three digits of a zip code for all such geographic units ...

  5. Health assessment - Wikipedia

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    A staff health check is a routine examination conducted by a health professional to assess an individual's overall health status. The primary aim is to identify health issues early, to monitor ongoing health conditions and to monitor future health risks. Health assessments are more detailed than regular health checks. They provide a holistic ...

  6. Purified water - Wikipedia

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    Softened water cannot be considered as truly demineralized water, but does no longer contain cations responsible for the hardness of water and causing the formation of limescale, a hard chalky deposit essentially consisting of CaCO 3, building up inside kettles, hot water boilers, and pipework.

  7. Health effect - Wikipedia

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    Health effects are an important consideration in many areas, such as hygiene, pollution studies, occupational safety and health, ([nutrition]) and health sciences in general. Some of the major environmental sources of health effects are air pollution, water pollution, soil contamination, noise pollution and over-illumination. [citation needed]

  8. How the end of daylight saving time affects your health - AOL

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    Some of that may have to do with the onset of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which affects about 5% of the U.S. population and is triggered by shorter, darker, colder days. Car accidents increase.

  9. Sulfamic acid - Wikipedia

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    It is frequently used for removing rust and limescale, replacing the more volatile and irritating hydrochloric acid, which is cheaper. It is often a component of household descalant, for example, Lime-A-Way Thick Gel contains up to 8% sulfamic acid and has pH 2.0–2.2, [12] or detergents used for removal of limescale.