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  2. Tumah and taharah - Wikipedia

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    A woman, upon giving birth, becomes impure for 7 days for a son or 14 days for a daughter. [13] A person who has been diagnosed with tzaraat is impure. [14] A house which has been diagnosed with tzaraat is impure, as are its contents. [15] A man or woman with an unnatural emission from the genitals , or a menstruating woman , are impure. A ...

  3. Chemical impurity - Wikipedia

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    When an impure liquid is cooled to its melting point the liquid, undergoing a phase transition, crystallizes around the impurities and becomes a crystalline solid. If there are no impurities then the liquid is said to be pure and can be supercooled below its melting point without becoming a solid. This occurs because the liquid has nothing to ...

  4. Aśuddhatā - Wikipedia

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    Hindus believe in a duality of purity and impurity. They think that people are both pure and impure and they understand that a person cannot be entirely one or the other. [ 2 ] While impurity has a negative connotation, “impurities are thought to be part of everyday life and all humans alternate between relative purity ( suddhatā ) and ...

  5. Ritual purity in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Purity (Arabic: طهارة, ṭahāra(h) [1]) is an essential aspect of Islam. It is the opposite of najāsa , the state of being ritually impure. It is achieved by first removing physical impurities (for example, urine) from the body, and then removing ritual impurity through wudu (usually) or ghusl .

  6. Chemical substance - Wikipedia

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    The required purity and analysis depends on the application, but higher tolerance of impurities is usually expected in the production of bulk chemicals. Thus, the user of the chemical in the US might choose between the bulk or "technical grade" with higher amounts of impurities or a much purer "pharmaceutical grade" (labeled "USP", United ...

  7. Unclean animal - Wikipedia

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    In Judaism, the concept of "impure animals" plays a prominent role in the Kashrut, the part of Jewish law that specifies which foods are allowed or forbidden to Jews. These laws are based upon the Books of Leviticus [1] and Deuteronomy [2] of the Torah and in the extensive body of rabbinical commentaries (the Talmud).

  8. Refining (metallurgy) - Wikipedia

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    In metallurgy, refining consists of purifying an impure metal. It is to be distinguished from other processes such as smelting and calcining in that those two involve a chemical change to the raw material, whereas in refining the final material is chemically identical to the raw material. Refining thus increases the purity of the raw material ...

  9. Tohorot (tractate) - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 2: How foods become impure when touched by an unclean person (§ 1); how a person becomes unclean through partaking of impure food (§ 2); difference between foods not sanctified, those constituting "terumah", and other sanctified foods, as regards their becoming unclean in the various degrees (§§ 3-8).