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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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How to use temporary hardness in a sentence

The bill, which passed Congress without opposition, is only a temporary fix and expires in 2015.
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Workers built a temporary rail track through the city to move the statue in a process that took three days.
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On Monday, de Blasio called for a temporary halt to protests until after the funerals of the two slain officers.
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This month a judge intervened and granted a 30-day temporary stay on police action against Abbott.
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Or are the risks so great that a temporary ban is necessary?
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It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
But her attention was all absorbed by the swiftly executed act by which Garnache had gained at least a temporary advantage.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
Close to the wagon in which our hero lay the natives had erected a temporary hut of grass, about six feet high.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
Industrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
For these plays were not the work of a professional writer, but the recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.
First Plays|A. A. Milne