47 relations: Acrylamide, Analytical quality control, Antimony, Arsenic, Benzene, Benzo(a)pyrene, Boron, Bromate, Cadmium, Chromium, Copper, Cyanide, Drinking water, Drinking Water Directive 1998, Elsevier, Epichlorohydrin, Escherichia coli, European Commission, Fluoride, Gram per litre, Ion, Lead, Mercury (element), Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nickel, Nitrate, Nitrite, Nitrogen, Organoleptic, Parts-per notation, Pesticide, PH, Political Geography (journal), Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, Public health, Safe Drinking Water Act, Selenium, Statistics, Tetrachloroethylene, Trichloroethylene, Trihalomethane, Turbidity, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Vinyl chloride, Water pollution, World Health Organization, 1,2-Dichloroethane.
Acrylamide
Acrylamide (or acrylic amide) is a chemical compound with the chemical formula C3H5NO.
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Analytical quality control
Analytical quality control, commonly shortened to AQC refers to all those processes and procedures designed to ensure that the results of laboratory analysis are consistent, comparable, accurate and within specified limits of precision.
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Antimony
Antimony is a chemical element with symbol Sb (from stibium) and atomic number 51.
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Arsenic
Arsenic is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33.
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Benzene
Benzene is an important organic chemical compound with the chemical formula C6H6.
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Benzo(a)pyrene
Benzopyrene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and the result of incomplete combustion of organic matter at temperatures between and.
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Boron
Boron is a chemical element with symbol B and atomic number 5.
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Bromate
The bromate anion, BrO, is a bromine-based oxoanion.
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Cadmium
Cadmium is a chemical element with symbol Cd and atomic number 48.
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Chromium
Chromium is a chemical element with symbol Cr and atomic number 24.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Cyanide
A cyanide is a chemical compound that contains the group C≡N.
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Drinking water
Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or to use for food preparation.
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Drinking Water Directive 1998
The Drinking Water Directive concerns the quality of water intended for human consumption and forms part of the regulation of Water supply and sanitation in the European Union.
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Elsevier
Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information.
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Epichlorohydrin
Epichlorohydrin (abbreviated ECH) is an organochlorine compound and an epoxide.
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Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli (also known as E. coli) is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms).
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.
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Fluoride
Fluoride.
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Gram per litre
A gram per litre or gram per liter (g/L or g/l) is a unit of measurement of mass concentration that shows how many grams of a certain substance are present in one litre of a usually liquid or gaseous mixture.
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Ion
An ion is an atom or molecule that has a non-zero net electrical charge (its total number of electrons is not equal to its total number of protons).
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Ministry of Ecology and Environment
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment, formerly the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (MEP), and prior to 2008 known as the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), is a department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
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Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
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Nitrate
Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the molecular formula and a molecular mass of 62.0049 u.
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Nitrite
The nitrite ion, which has the chemical formula, is a symmetric anion with equal N–O bond lengths.
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Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.
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Organoleptic
Organoleptic properties are the aspects of food, water or other substances that an individual experiences via the senses—including taste, sight, smell, and touch.
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Parts-per notation
In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction.
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Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests, including weeds.
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PH
In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.
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Political Geography (journal)
Political Geography is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier covering spatial dimensions of politics.
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, also polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons) are hydrocarbons—organic compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen—that are composed of multiple aromatic rings (organic rings in which the electrons are delocalized).
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Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".
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Safe Drinking Water Act
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is the principal federal law in the United States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public.
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Selenium
Selenium is a chemical element with symbol Se and atomic number 34.
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Statistics
Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.
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Tetrachloroethylene
Tetrachloroethylene, also known under the systematic name tetrachloroethene, or perchloroethylene ("perc" or "PERC"), and many other names, is a chlorocarbon with the formula Cl2C.
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Trichloroethylene
The chemical compound trichloroethylene is a halocarbon commonly used as an industrial solvent.
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Trihalomethane
Trihalomethanes (THMs) are chemical compounds in which three of the four hydrogen atoms of methane (CH4) are replaced by halogen atoms.
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Turbidity
Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.
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Vinyl chloride
Vinyl chloride is an organochloride with the formula H2C.
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Water pollution
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.
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1,2-Dichloroethane
The chemical compound 1,2-dichloroethane commonly known as ethylene dichloride (EDC), is a chlorinated hydrocarbon.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water_quality_standards