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Iodine tends to react with impurities in salt, causing it to evaporate, so iodized salt becomes less effective over time.
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Typically, water freezes below 0° Celsius thanks to impurities, such as dust in the water, on which ice crystals can nucleate.
A STOP-MOTION EXPERIMENT REVEALS SUPERCOOLED WATER’S DUAL NATUREEMILY CONOVERSEPTEMBER 28, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
The principal impurity, and one which renders alum unfit for the use of the dyer, is iron.
Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.
THE ONTARIO READERS: THE HIGH SCHOOL READER, 1886MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
I admired spotlessness, even though I could lay no claim to it, and hated impurity, as I hope I do now.
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLESTHOMAS HARDY
Is it not there that the evil spirits of impurity spread their nets for thoughtless and unsuspecting youth?
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EAST
The court of Catharine de' Medici was noted for its impurity, as it was infamous for its recklessness of human life.
HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE HUGUENOTSHENRY BAIRD
There were public lustrations for purifying cities, fields, and people defiled by crime or impurity.
THE MYSTERIES OF ALL NATIONSJAMES GRANT
We wonder she was so good—we sorrow at the impurity,—not so much of the beset actress, as of her position.
Each pipe dropped from the lips of its owner as though all had inhaled an impurity at the same instant.
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANSJAMES FENIMORE COOPER
WORDS RELATED TO IMPURITY
- beauty spot
- birthmark
- blackhead
- blister
- bloom
- blot
- blot on the landscape
- blotch
- blur
- brand
- bruise
- bug
- catch
- chip
- cicatrix
- defacement
- defect
- deformity
- dent
- discoloration
- disfigurement
- disgrace
- dishonor
- eyesore
- fault
- freckle
- hickey
- imperfection
- impurity
- lentigo
- lump
- macula
- maculation
- mark
- mole
- nevus
- nodule
- patch
- pimple
- pock
- pockmark
- scar
- second
- sight
- smudge
- snag
- speck
- speckle
- spot
- stain
- stigma
- taint
- tarnish
- vice
- wart
- whitehead
- zit
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