NOUN
- water that contains mineral salts (as calcium and magnesium ions) that limit the formation of lather with soap
How To Use hard water In A Sentence
- Unlike cationic and nonionic detergents, however, they can be partly deactivated by too-hard water. HOME COMFORTS
- The heating element had a significant amount of white hard water deposits built up on it.
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- The dissolved salts in hard water have a similar effect, so soft water is advised.
- Soap does not lather well in hard water.
- Hard water will, of course, affect soaping processes and consume soap by the formation of insoluble calcium and magnesium soaps.
- The emulsion of MFX is stable to dilute salt solutions acid or alkali and hard water.
- I live in a hard water area and am concerned about the build-up of scale in the central heating system.
- As the latter process of removing the lather is the one universally adopted, the operation of washing with soap and hard water is analogous to that used by the dyer and calico printer for fixing pigments in calico, woolen, or silk tissues. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
- Scum is formed when soaps and detergents react with hard water.