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| softening | |||
| softening (de l'eau); tempering; "softening" | |||
| blur; blurring | |||
| feed water softening; softening Reduction of the hardness of water by removing hardness-forming ions (chiefly calcium and magnesium) by precipitation or ion exchange, or sequestering them as by combining them with substances such as certain phosphates, that form soluble but non-ionized salts; water softening | |||
| sweetening | |||
| soft annealing; thermal softening; sweeting | |||
| lenition; weakening | |||
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