hard water

See also: hardwater

English

Noun

hard water (countable and uncountable, plural hard waters)

(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)

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