Purification is the process of rendering something pure, i.e. clean of foreign elements and/or pollution, and may refer to:

Religion

Ritual purification Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of ''uncleanliness'', especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness. Ritual purification ...

, the religious activity to remove uncleanliness *

Purification after death In Christianity, Purgatory (, borrowed into English via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is a passing Intermediate state (Christianity)">intermediate state after physical death for purifying or purging a soul. A common analogy is dross being remov ...

Purification of the Virgin The Presentation of Jesus is an early episode in the life of Jesus Christ, describing his presentation at the Temple in Jerusalem. It is celebrated by many churches 40 days after Christmas on Candlemas, or the "Feast of the Presentation of Jes ...

, a Christian liturgical feast *

Purification Rundown The Purification Rundown, also known as the Purif or the Hubbard Method, is a Pseudoscience, pseudoscientific procedure that advocates of Scientology claim is a Detoxification (alternative medicine), detoxification program. There is no evidence f ...

, in Scientology

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* ''Purification'' (album), a 2002 Crimson Thorn album *

Quantum state purification In quantum information theory, quantum state purification refers to the process of representing a mixed state as a pure quantum state of higher-dimensional Hilbert space. The purification allows the original mixed state to be recovered by taking ...

in quantum mechanics, especially quantum information *

Purification theorem In game theory, the purification theorem was contributed by Nobel laureate John Harsanyi in 1973. The theorem justifies a puzzling aspect of mixed strategy Nash equilibria In game theory, the Nash equilibrium is the most commonly used solutio ...

in game theory and economics, a Nash equilibrium consisting of randomly mixed strategies *

Water purification Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids, and gases from water. The goal is to produce water that is fit for specific purposes. Most water is purified and disinfected for hu ...

Organisms used in water purification Most organisms involved in water purification originate from the waste, wastewater or water stream itself or arrive as resting spore of some form from the atmosphere. In a very few cases, mostly associated with constructed wetlands, specific org ...

List of purification methods in chemistry Purification in a chemical context is the physical separation of a chemical substance of interest from foreign or contaminating substances. Pure results of a successful purification process are termed isolate. The following list of chemical pu ...

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