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hardwater en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of hard water.
    alt of hard water
    • That is why it takes more soap to make a good lather when using hardwater. 2001, Michael Kasenow, Applied Ground-water Hydrology and Well Hydraulics, →ISBN, page 8:
    • The greater availability of nutrients in hardwater streams stimulated more abundant fungal biomass and fungal activity and resulted in a more diverse fungal species assemblage. 2003, John Dighton, Fungi in Ecosystem Processes, →ISBN, page 69:
    • In experiments which seem appropriate to this topic, Abel and Bârlocher (1984) found that cadmium was more toxic to aquatic hyphomycetes in softwater with low calcium concentrations than in hardwater with high calcium levels. 2012, Felix Bärlocher, The Ecology of Aquatic Hyphomycetes, →ISBN, page 162: