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Many people regard mineral waters as something extraordinary but, in most cases, they (and here we include thermal waters) acquire their characteristic chemistry in the same way that any groundwater does. Much of the character of mineral water comes from the dissolution or leaching of components from minerals, but that is not the whole story, so let’ s start from the beginning.
The amount of minerals you get in a glass of water is probably equivalent to the nutrition gained from a scraping of carrot. Liz Edwards, 1994
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© 1997 M. Albu, D. Banks and H. Nash
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Albu, M., Banks, D., Nash, H. (1997). Hydrogeochemistry and origin of mineral waters. In: Mineral and Thermal Groundwater Resources. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5846-6_3
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