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Definition of Potability
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potability
Literary usage of Potability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conservation by Sanitation: Air and Water Supply, Disposal of Waste by Ellen Henrietta Richards (1911)
"C. BIOLOGIC TREATMENT AND SAND FILTRATION FOR DIRECT potability CIVILIZED man
demands some kind of treatment for his waste of daily living. ..."
2. Conservation by Sanitation: Air and Water Supply, Disposal of Waste by Ellen Henrietta Richards (1911)
"C. BIOLOGIC TREATMENT AND SAND FILTRATION FOR DIRECT potability CIVILIZED man
demands some kind of treatment for his waste of daily living. ..."
3. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1907)
"77639 B. potability A New Ozone Water-Sterilizing Equipment. ... potability.
The Relation of Sedimentation and Acid Mine Wastes to the potability of the ..."
4. International Clinics by Henry W. Cattell (1901)
"Our inability to determine the potability of water by bacteriological examinations
... If we can ever by this means decide upon the potability of water as ..."
5. Water-supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1907)
"The value of water for a public supply may be discussed under two heads: (1) Its
potability; (2) its suitability for domestic and manufacturing purposes. ..."
6. Philippine Water Supplies by George W. Heise, Abraham S. Behrman (1918)
"One of these is often sufficient to determine the potability. As a general rule,
however, it is not enough to know that a water is good at the time of ..."
7. Underground waters of the coastal plain of Georgia by Lloyd William Stephenson, Jethro Otto Veatch, Richard Bryant Dole, Georgia Geological survey, 1890- (1915)
"MINERAL MATTER AND potability. The lower waters are in mineral content the more
acceptable they are as sources of domestic supply. ..."
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