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A mixture (x) in water contains suspended solids, organic impurities, inorganic impurities (a), nutrients (b), disease causing bacteria and other microbes. Give names for (x), (a) and (b)?

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A mixture of sewage (x) in water contains suspended solids, organic impurities, inorganic impurities, like nitrates, phosphates and metals (a), nutrients like phosphorous and nitrogen (b), disease-causing bacteria and other microbes.

Sewage is a complex mixture containing suspended solids, organic and inorganic impurities, nutrients, saprotrophic and disease causing bacteria and other microbes. The organic impurities include human faeces, animal waste, oil, urea (urine), pesticides, herbicides, fruit and vegetable waste. The inorganic impurities include nitrates, phosphates and metals. The nutrients include phosphorus and nitrogen.


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