desalination

removal of salts and minerals from a substance, best known is the removal of salt from seawater to obtain drinking water
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desalination

Summary

desalination ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (811 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • desalination's GND ID is recorded as 4038339-8[2].
  • desalination's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85116768[3].
  • desalination's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12043206m[4].
  • desalination's subclass of is recorded as separation process[5].
  • desalination's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00562013[6].
  • desalination's Commons category is recorded as Desalination[7].
  • desalination's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 19705[8].
  • desalination's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/014lg9[9].
  • desalination's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph200808[10].
  • desalination's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Water desalination[11].
  • desalination's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300053754[12].
  • desalination's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 628.167[13].
  • desalination's PSH ID is recorded as 6352[14].
  • desalination's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0271151[15].
  • desalination's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • desalination's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[17].
  • desalination's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/desalination[18].
  • desalination's topic has template is recorded as Template:Desalination[19].
  • desalination's BBC Things ID is recorded as 46c6b693-e29a-4a56-8455-5d039f06c478[20].
  • desalination's YSO ID is recorded as 39407[21].
  • desalination's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as eau-dessalement-de-l-eau-de-mer[22].
  • desalination's New York Times topic ID is recorded as subject/desalination[23].
  • desalination's Treccani ID is recorded as dissalazione[24].
  • desalination's Quora topic ID is recorded as Desalination[25].
  • desalination's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19896879[26].

Why It Matters

desalination ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (811 views/month).[1] desalination has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] desalination is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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