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What is Water hardness?

Definition 32.8 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 32 — Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology

The hardness of a water is its total concentration of calcium and magnesium ions, often expressed as the mass of calcium carbonate that would contain the same number of moles, in mg/L.

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