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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of desalt.

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Examples

  • According to experts, Poseidon's desalted water also poses increased health risks from disinfection byproducts and substances like boron, which are in ocean water and not currently regulated under drinking water standards.

    Steve Fleischli: Getting More Out of the Men's Room 2009

  • The land here had been desalted enough to support a variety of vegetation; however, much of the area was devoted to industry and the capital itself.

    Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

  • By the time he had lugged the boy a good distance down the shore and cleaned him off-first using the salty water, and then using some desalted water that left him with a headache-and returned, Ayrlyn had biscuits and cheese laid out for them.

    The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • However, a mis-statement was made by Secretary of State Udal when in his opening remarks, he said "By the end of the conference we should have desalted water at 22/25 cents per thousand U.S. gallons and power at 3.5 mils."

    Long-Term Aid to the Middle East 1990

  • "Well, Shawn, if she has desalted you, I know one that loves you better than ever she did, and that would never desart you, as Grace Davoren has done."

    The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

  • Proteins were desalted on a PD-10 column (GE Healthcare) in 20 mM MES (pH 6), 20 mM NaCl.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010

  • The samples were subsequently desalted by exclusion chromatography over 5 mL Zebra Desalt spin columns, as recommended by the manufacturer (Pierce).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Neelkamal Chaudhary et al. 2010

  • For the 2D analysis the samples were desalted by diluting the concentrated proteins to 0.5 ml with 10% PBS and re-concentrating them as above.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vincent Gache et al. 2010

  • The desalted water will go into the Colorado River and be counted against the

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • In an email to AFP, Han said the experiment entailed a tiny microfluidic chip, just a few millimetres (fraction of an inch) square, that desalted just 10 microlitres per minute.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

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