turbidity
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Causes and effects
- Measurement
- Standards and test methods
- Drinking water standards
- Ambient water standards
- United States
- Analytical methods
- Treatment
- Reagents
- See also
- References
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thumb|Turbidity standards of 5, 50, and 500 NTU
Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye. The measurement of turbidity is a key test of both water clarity and water quality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “turbidity” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.