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  2. Potassium chloride - Wikipedia

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    Potassium chloride (KCl, or potassium salt) is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine. It is odorless and has a white or colorless vitreous crystal appearance. The solid dissolves readily in water, and its solutions have a salt-like taste. Potassium chloride can be obtained from ancient dried lake deposits. [7]

  3. Sylvite - Wikipedia

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    Sylvite, or sylvine, is potassium chloride (KCl) in natural mineral form. It forms crystals in the isometric system very similar to normal rock salt, halite (NaCl). The two are, in fact, isomorphous. [5] Sylvite is colorless to white with shades of yellow and red due to inclusions. It has a Mohs hardness of 2.5 and a specific gravity of 1.99.

  4. Your tap water in Evansville may taste different for a while ...

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    Starting Aug. 26, the Evansville Water & Sewer Utility will change the disinfectant used in the water supply from chloramine to free chlorine. The switch will last until Oct. 26.

  5. Drinking water quality standards - Wikipedia

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    A public water system exceeding the action level must implement "treatment techniques" which are enforceable procedures. [14] ** TT (treatment technique). The public water system must certify that the combination of dose and monomer level does not exceed: acrylamide = 0.05% dosed at 1 mg/L (or equivalent); epichlorohydrin = 0.01% dosed at 20 mg ...

  6. Potash - Wikipedia

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    After the water evaporated, the potassium salts crystallized into beds of potash ore. These are the locations where potash is being mined today. The deposits are a naturally occurring mixture of potassium chloride (KCl) and sodium chloride (NaCl), more commonly known as table salt. Over time, as the surface of the earth changed, these deposits ...

  7. Should salty water be dumped back into Possum Kingdom Lake ...

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    An annual average of 1.51 million gallons per day of water treatment waste could be discharged back into the lake, according to a draft TCEQ permit shared by the neighborhood association.

  8. Health effects of salt - Wikipedia

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    Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl) and is used in food for both preservation and flavor. Sodium ions are needed in small quantities by most living things, as are chlorine ions. Salt is involved in regulating the water content (fluid balance) of the body. Both sodium and chlorine ions are used for electrical signaling ...

  9. Water purification - Wikipedia

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    Groundwater: The water emerging from some deep ground water may have fallen as rain many tens, hundreds, or thousands of years ago. Soil and rock layers naturally filter the ground water to a high degree of clarity and often, it does not require additional treatment besides adding chlorine or chloramines as secondary disinfectants.