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  2. Dead Sea - Wikipedia

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    Short video about the Dead Sea from the Israeli News Company. The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yām hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the Israeli-occupied West Bank to ...

  3. Safety data sheet - Wikipedia

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    An example SDS, including guidance for handling a hazardous substance and information on its composition and properties. A safety data sheet (SDS), [1] material safety data sheet (MSDS), or product safety data sheet (PSDS) is a document that lists information relating to occupational safety and health for the use of various substances and products.

  4. Department of Water and Sanitation - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Water and Sanitation is one of the departments of the South African government.It is responsible for the state of water and sanitation in South Africa.. In May 2009, following the election of Jacob Zuma, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry was divided, with the forestry responsibility being transferred to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

  5. Polyvinylidene fluoride - Wikipedia

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    PVDF is widely considered safe and ubiquitous used for water treatment, [23] the food industry, and biocompatible devices like hernia meshes or internal devices. PVDF differs from PFAS in that alternating groups are hydrogen, making it less resilient to high temperatures, but also meaning that byproducts don't degrade into known hazardous PFAS ...

  6. Sodium cyanate - Wikipedia

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    The main use of sodium cyanate is for steel hardening. [2]Sodium cyanate is used to produce cyanic acid, often in situ: . NaOCN + HCl → HOCN + NaCl. This approach is exploited for condensation with amines to give unsymmetrical ureas:

  7. Tonic water - Wikipedia

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    Under ultraviolet light, the quinine in tonic water fluoresces, as seen with this bottle of Canada Dry tonic water. Tonic water is a carbonated soft drink in which quinine is dissolved. Originally used as a prophylactic against malaria , modern tonic water typically has a significantly lower quinine content and is often more sweetened than the ...

  8. Carbon disulfide - Wikipedia

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    Carbon disulfide (also spelled as carbon disulphide) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula CS 2 and structure S=C=S.It is also considered as the anhydride of thiocarbonic acid. [8]

  9. Conductivity (electrolytic) - Wikipedia

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    Applications of TDS measurements are not limited to industrial use; many people use TDS as an indicator of the purity of their drinking water. Additionally, aquarium enthusiasts are concerned with TDS, both for freshwater and salt water aquariums. Many fish and invertebrates require quite narrow parameters for dissolved solids.