hard water

See also: hardwater

English

Noun

hard water (countable and uncountable, plural hard waters)

1. (chemistry) Water with a high concentration of dissolved minerals, especially calcium, making it difficult to lather with soap.

Antonyms

• soft water

Translations

water with a high concentration of dissolved minerals

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硬水 (zh) (yìngshuǐ)

• Danish: hårdt vand n
• Dutch: hard water n
• Finnish: kova vesi
• French: eau dure (fr) f
• German: hartes Wasser n
• Gujarati: કઠિન પાણી (kaṭhin pāṇī)
• Irish: uisce crua m
• Japanese: 硬水 (ja) (kōsui)
• Kazakh: кермек су (kermek su)
• Korean: 경수(硬水) (ko) (gyeongsu), 센물 (senmul)
• Portuguese: água dura (pt) f
• Romanian: apă dură f
• Russian: жёсткая вода́ f (žóstkaja vodá)
• Spanish: agua dura f
• Swedish: hårt vatten n
• Thai: น้ำกระด้าง (th) (náam-grà-dâang)
• Ukrainian: тверда́ вода́ f (tverdá vodá)

See also

• water softener
• heavy water

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