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Definition of Desalination
1. Noun. The removal of salt (especially from sea water).
Generic synonyms: Chemical Action, Chemical Change, Chemical Process
Derivative terms: Desalinate, Desalinise, Desalinize
Definition of Desalination
1. Noun. The process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desalination
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desalination
Literary usage of Desalination
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East; Alternative Strategies by Masahiro Murakami (1995)
"A case study on their nature and potential use for desalination and water supply is
... 4.4.3 Seawater desalination of seawater for M&I water supply is the ..."
2. Lessons Learned from the California Drought (1987-1992): National Study of by Benedykt Dziegielewski, Hari P. Garbharran, John F. Langowski, Jr. (1997)
"Unconventional Supply Alternatives desalination is the extraction of ...
desalination of seawater became a more viable alternative during the drought. ..."
3. Hydropolitics along the Jordan River; Scarce Water and Its Impact on the by Aaron T. Wolf (1995)
"If a dual-purpose plant for power generation and distillation desalination were
to be built at the intake (as proposed along the Israeli coast or at Aqaba ..."
4. Nuclear Production Of Hydrogen: Second Information Exchange Meeting, Argonne by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"In the desalination plant, the CO2 is divided into two flows; one goes to the
... desalination plant As mentioned above, the desalination plant for reagent ..."