chlorination
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Local governments have put up sign boards around ponds warning against bathing or swimming and evoked the Public Health Act to enforce regular chlorination of swimming pools and water tanks.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
This allowed them to develop an effective method for separating useful phosphorus-containing compounds using a combination of chlorination steps with and without the presence of carbon.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
Other cities followed and the use of chlorination as standard treatment for water disinfection rapidly grew.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2023
The statement said chlorination activities to disinfect water are being scaled up and dosing rates are being increased in fragile and highly vulnerable communities to curb the spread of the disease.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
These, the cyanide and chlorination processes, have almost entirely superseded the old washing and amalgamating methods of treating free gold—and the cyanide seems to be now taking the lead.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
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