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temporary hardness

British

noun

chem hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling

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In one of the film’s few temporal markers, it pans across a poster on the wall next to the bed—a French Open drawing of Björn Borg that is prominently dated 1981.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2018

All reports are littered with temporal markers, indexing stop, start, when and for how long, with transitions registered in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, and so on.

From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2012

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