chlorination

IPA: kɫˈɔrʌnˈeɪʃʌn

(chemistry) The act or process of chlorinating something; especially, the addition of chlorine to water to purify it, and a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

Examples of "chlorination" in Sentences

Aloma says they also are airlifting supplies of water chlorination tablets and hygiene kits.
Several partners are about to wind down their chlorination operations because of a lack of funding or to focus on longer-term strategies.
"Unlike UV or other disinfection techniques [such as chlorination] they can also kill some of the toughest microbes such as spores," he said.
In particular, if certain treatments of the raw water, such as chlorination are believed necessary, effective local substitutes may not exist.
The natural water treatment potential was adopted long before chemical water treatment methods, such as chlorination and flocculation, were discovered and applied.
MSF-Belgium and Oxfam-GB have announced they will stop on 1 March the chlorination of 11 wells in Port-au-Prince that provide water for approximately 374,500 people.
Salvador Guillet on February 4, 20111, with the publication of its final Situation Report on cholera, which accused major NGOs of abandoning well chlorination projects.
Dr. Osterholm reckons that irradiation is the necessary fourth pillar of a public-health platform—the other three pillars being chlorination, vaccination and pasteurization—that has delivered astonishing progress against infectious disease and a dramatically longer average life span over the past century.