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  2. Greywater - Wikipedia

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    A clothes washer grey water system is sized to recycle the grey water of a one or two family home using the reclaimed water of a washing machine (produces 15 gallons per person per day). [20] It relies on either the pump from the washing machine or gravity to irrigate. This particular system is the most common and least restricted system.

  3. What Is Gray Water — and How Can Using It Help Save ... - AOL

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    You're using (and paying for) an average of 300 gallons of water every day. Save money and promote sustainability by putting gray water to use for you.

  4. Water - Wikipedia

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    According to a report published by the Water Footprint organization in 2010, a single kilogram of beef requires 15 thousand litres (3.3 × 10 ^ 3 imp gal; 4.0 × 10 ^ 3 US gal) of water; however, the authors also make clear that this is a global average and circumstantial factors determine the amount of water used in beef production.

  5. Tektite - Wikipedia

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    an extremely low content of water and other volatiles; an abundance of lechatelierite; a general lack of microscopic crystals known as microlites; not having a chemical relationship to the local bedrock or local sediments; their distribution within geographically extensive strewn fields

  6. Lye - Wikipedia

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    Pellets of soda lye (sodium hydroxide) Pellets of potash lye (potassium hydroxide)Lye is a hydroxide, either sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.The word lye most accurately refers to sodium hydroxide (NaOH), [citation needed] but historically has been conflated to include other alkali materials, most notably potassium hydroxide (KOH).

  7. Bentonite - Wikipedia

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    Bentonite layers from an ancient deposit of weathered volcanic ash tuff in Wyoming Gray shale and bentonites (Benton Shale; Colorado Springs, Colorado). Bentonite (/ ˈ b ɛ n t ə n aɪ t / BEN-tə-nyte) [1] [2] is an absorbent swelling clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite (a type of smectite) which can either be Na-montmorillonite or Ca-montmorillonite.

  8. Condensation reaction - Wikipedia

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    The addition of the two molecules typically proceeds in a step-wise fashion to the addition product, usually in equilibrium, and with loss of a water molecule (hence the name condensation). [3] The reaction may otherwise involve the functional groups of the molecule, and is a versatile class of reactions that can occur in acidic or basic ...

  9. Pigment - Wikipedia

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    The Munsell system describes a color in three dimensions, hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity), where chroma is the difference from gray at a given hue and value. By the middle 20th century, standardized methods for pigment chemistry were available, part of an international movement to create such standards in industry.