Chapter 5 - Water Vocabulary

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Environmental Science - Holt, Rinhart and Winston, 2000

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desalinization

the process of removing salt from water; two methods: distillation - where heat is used to evaporate fresh water from salt water leaving salts behind; and reverse osmosis - pressure is used to push water though a membrane in which salt can not pass through