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Hard water   /hɑrd wˈɔtər/   Listen
Hard water

noun
1.
Water that contains mineral salts (as calcium and magnesium ions) that limit the formation of lather with soap.





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... and that one could never have appendicitis if such seeds were not swallowed. This theory is to-day almost forgotten, and one eminent surgeon has asserted that the prevalence of this disease in a district depends on the calcium in the soil, since it is to that mineral that hard water is due, although this has not been substantiated. No information is to-day available by which the fitness of a soil for securing sanitary conditions of building ...
— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden


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