Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of subjecting to the action of chlorin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
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- noun chemistry The act or process of
chlorinating something; especially, the addition of chlorine to water to purify it, and a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of theauriferous material to chlorine gas.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun disinfection of water by the addition of small amounts of chlorine or a chlorine compound
- noun the addition or substitution of chlorine in organic compounds
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Examples
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The natural water treatment potential was adopted long before chemical water treatment methods, such as chlorination and flocculation, were discovered and applied.
1. Historical development and experience with water treatment 1996
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In particular, if certain treatments of the raw water, such as chlorination are believed necessary, effective local substitutes may not exist.
3. Technologies 1985
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"Unlike UV or other disinfection techniques [such as chlorination] they can also kill some of the toughest microbes such as spores," he said.
SciDev.Net 2010
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"Unlike UV or other disinfection techniques [such as chlorination] they can also kill some of the toughest microbes such as spores," he said.
SciDev.Net 2010
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"Unlike UV or other disinfection techniques [such as chlorination] they can also kill some of the toughest microbes such as spores," he said.
COSMOS magazine - The science of everything Jacqui 2010
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Several partners are about to wind down their chlorination operations because of a lack of funding or to focus on longer-term strategies.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flooding Scours the Whitewash From Haiti Aid Efforts Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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MSF-Belgium and Oxfam-GB have announced they will stop on 1 March the chlorination of 11 wells in Port-au-Prince that provide water for approximately 374,500 people.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flooding Scours the Whitewash From Haiti Aid Efforts Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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Salvador Guillet on February 4, 20111, with the publication of its final Situation Report on cholera, which accused major NGOs of abandoning well chlorination projects.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flooding Scours the Whitewash From Haiti Aid Efforts Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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Aloma says they also are airlifting supplies of water chlorination tablets and hygiene kits.
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Dr. Osterholm reckons that irradiation is the necessary fourth pillar of a public-health platform—the other three pillars being chlorination, vaccination and pasteurization—that has delivered astonishing progress against infectious disease and a dramatically longer average life span over the past century.
When Precaution Trumps Public Safety Matt Ridley 2011
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