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  2. Chemical impurity - Wikipedia

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    The water is cooled and the gas turns back to a pure liquid. [3] Impurities are usually physically removed from liquids and gases. Removal of sand particles from metal ore is one example with solids. No matter what method is used, it is usually impossible to separate an impurity completely from a material.

  3. List of purification methods in chemistry - Wikipedia

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    This removes impurities in a substance that an electric current is run through; Sublimation is the process of changing of any substance (usually on heating) from a solid to a gas (or from gas to a solid) without passing through liquid phase. In terms of purification - material is heated, often under vacuum, and the vapors of the material are ...

  4. Scouring (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    Foreign matter in addition to fiber is known as "impurities." Textile fibers contain many types of impurities. e.g.: Natural impurities: Impurities gathered from the natural environment by the fibres. Natural impurities also include non-fibrous parts that are incorporated into the fiber during its growth.

  5. Purified water - Wikipedia

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    However, demineralized water is often used interchangeably with deionized water and can be also confused with softened water, depending on the exact definition used: removing only the cations susceptible to precipitate as insoluble minerals (from there, "demineralization"), or removing all the "mineral species" present in water, and thus not ...

  6. Water filter - Wikipedia

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    A water filter removes impurities by lowering contamination of water using a fine physical barrier, a chemical process, or a biological process. Filters cleanse water to different extents, for purposes such as: providing agricultural irrigation , accessible drinking water , public and private aquariums , and the safe use of ponds and swimming ...

  7. 10 years after Flint’s lead water crisis began, a lack of ...

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    Now, Mayor Sheldon Neeley contends the city’s work to ensure a Flint free from contaminated drinking water is finally on the “last leg” of the process — a promise that comes as families ...

  8. Chemically inert - Wikipedia

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    Inert atmospheres consisting of gases such as argon, nitrogen, or helium are commonly used in chemical reaction chambers and in storage containers for oxygen-or water-sensitive substances, to prevent unwanted reactions of these substances with oxygen or water. [4] Argon is widely used in fluorescence tubes and low energy light bulbs.

  9. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...