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desalinization science definition
also desalination
The removal of salt or other chemicals from something, such as seawater or soil. Desalinization can be achieved by means of evaporation, freezing, reverse osmosis, ion exchange, and electrodialysis.
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- desalinize desalinize verb
desalinization
diagram of a distillation process showing how seawater is desalinized
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