demin

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/dɪˈmɪn//diˈmɪn/

noun

Demineralized water.

“It's usually safe to drink demin.”

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noundemin (uncountable)
  1. attributiveuncountableusuallyengineeringDemineralized water.

    It's usually safe to drink demin.

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    There are many applications, for example it would be useful to fit it in series with ion exchange cartridges used in the laboratory or on 'demin' plants in industry.

    1973 March, “Miniature conductivity meter”, in Control & Instrumentation, volume 5, number 3 (advertisement), London: Morgan-Grampian Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63

    For this reason, a demin line normally consists of a cation and an anion filter. If the water quality is not according to specifications after leaving these two filters, a mixed bed (anion and cation resins in one tank) is used.

    2015, L. Daal, F. de Vos, J. Soons, T. de Vries, “Membrane technologies for water treatment and reuse in the power industries”, in Angelo Basile, Alfredo Cassano, Navin K. Rastog, editors, Advances in Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment: Materials, Processes and Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy; 75), Sawston, Cambridgeshire: Woodhead Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, page 610

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