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Definition: Chlorination |
ChlorinationNoun1. The addition or substitution of chlorine in organic compounds. 2. Disinfection of water by the addition of small amounts of chlorine or a chlorine compound. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | The application of chlorine to drinking water, sewage, or industrial waste to disinfect or to oxidize undesirable compounds. (references) |
| The process of introducing one or more chlorine atoms into a compound, often using gaseous chlorine. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | When used with reference to textile processing, a term indicating the reaction of a fibre with chlorine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Adding prescribed amounts of chlorine to water of poor quality to make it fit for human consumption. Practical in emergencies but not entirely reliable as disinfection is not extensive. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The chlorination of public drinking supplies was originally met with resistance, as people were concerned about the health effects of the practice. The use of chlorine has greatly reduced the prevalence of waterborne disease as it is effective against almost all bacteria and viruses, but even to this day there are those who wish to move to other purification systems. They point to the production of dangerous by-products in the water when chlorine reacts with naturally occurring organic compounds found in the water supply. The most common of these are trihalomethanes (THMs), which include chloroform. Another method to purify water is to use ozone and some municipalities have switched to that method, but ozone breaks down quickly so smaller amounts of chlorine are still added to these systems to ensure that water downstream from the treatment facility continues to be safe.
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Crosswords: Chlorination |
| English words defined with "chlorination": prechlorination. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chlorination": BLEACH PACKER ♦ CCl4, Chloride Peroxidase ♦ detinning ♦ fluorocarbon-10 ♦ Physical and Chemical Treatment ♦ Superchlorination ♦ Thiess process, Trickling Filter. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Production. Magnesium. High above the desert workmen speed up the reinforced steel construction of one of the 300-foot-long chlorination buildings at Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Chlorination and safe water handling can eliminate the risk of waterborne bacterial diseases. (references) | |
If the methods above cannot be used, then try chemical inactivation of Giardia by chlorination or iodination. (references) | ||
Maintaining adequate levels of chlorination is necessary for preventing swimming pool-associated outbreaks of adenovirus conjunctivitis. (references) | ||
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| "Chlorination" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chlorination" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "chlorination"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 氯化 (Chlorinate, Chlorinated, Chlorinating). (various references) | |
German | Chloren (chlorinate). (various references) | |
Korean | ì—¼í™" (Ammonium). (various references) | |
Manx | cloreenaghey (chlorinate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orinationchlay.(various references) | |
Russian | хлорирование. (various references) | |
Swedish | klorering. (various references) | |
Turkish | klorlama. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chlorination": chlorinations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "chlorination": dechlorination, dehydrochlorination. (additional references) | |
Words containing "chlorination": dechlorinations, dehydrochlorinations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "chlorination" (pronounced 'Chlo`ri*na"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-3 letters: clintonia, coalition, coitional, noncoital, trichinal. | |
-4 letters: acrolith, anorthic, cilantro, colorant, conation, contrail, horntail, inaction, ironical, lanthorn, location, lothario, nitrolic, nonactor, notional, ornithic, orthicon, trichina, trochili. | |
-5 letters: actinon, althorn, anionic, antlion, cannoli, carotin, cartoon, chantor, chariot, chitlin, chlorin, chorial, chorion, chronon, clarion, coition, contain, control, coolant, coranto, coronal, haricot, hornito, inthral, locator, nicotin, nitinol. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: chlorinations, nonhistorical. | |
+2 letters: dechlorination. | |
+3 letters: dechlorinations, thyrocalcitonin. | |
+4 letters: thyrocalcitonins. | |
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