Hardness at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Hardness? Concentration of calcium and magnesium salts in water. Hardness originally referred to the soap-consuming power of water; as such it is sometimes also taken to include iron and manganese. Permanent hardness also known as noncarbonated hardness is the

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