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- noun Plural form of
chloramine .
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Examples
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In case of fluoridation and chloramines, what emerges at the end of the pipe our faucets! is a potentially highly hazardous mixture of fluorosilicates, lead, and residual levels of disinfectants.
Enviroblog: Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water Archives 2009
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A 2005 survey by the American Water Works Association found that approximately a third of all utilities now use chloramines.
Enviroblog: Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water Archives 2009
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American water utilities are increasingly switching to chloramines, a mixture of chlorine and ammonia, for final disinfection of drinking water.
Enviroblog: Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water Archives 2009
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But the process of disinfecting water with chlorine and chloramines and other types of disinfectants generates a class of compounds in the water that are called disinfection by-products.
Disinfectants Used To Purify Water Create Toxic By-Products | Impact Lab 2009
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Yet, chloramines drastically increase the leaching of lead from pipes.
Enviroblog: Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water Archives 2009
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North Carolina researchers concluded that the supposedly innocuous - and purportedly beneficial - quantities of fluoride added to drinking water may, in fact, precipitate a cascade of serious health problems, especially when chloramines and lead pipes are added into the mix.
Enviroblog: Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water Archives 2009
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Use a vitamin c shower filter to remove chlorine and chloramines. it will remove close to 100%. i also add a quarter gram or vitamin c per gallon of drinking water to deactivate chlorine/chloramines.
Enviroblog: Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water Archives 2009
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For us former life guards, a little whiff of chloramines or even Clorox triggers memories.
Swimming Pool Air James Killus 2007
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A substantial part of the “swimming pool smell” that most people think of as chlorine is actually from chloramines.
Swimming Pool Air James Killus 2007
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Then you get chloramines which are even more toxic than chlorine itself.
Swimming Pool Air James Killus 2007
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