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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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Summary

desalination ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,081 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: separation process[2]
  • Commons category: Desalination[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Water desalination[4]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[5], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[6]
  • Topic has template: Template:Desalination[7]

Why It Matters

desalination has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] desalination is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → w6QzA
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  2. 16w ago · DaSupremo · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Multiflash.svg
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Image: Multiflash.svg, using #view-it"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0270252-odsolovani-vody
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0270252-odsolovani-vody, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → New Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge
    Topic's main category → Category:Water desalination
    Subclass of → —
    Topic has template → Template:Desalination
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 39407, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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