Describe how sodium carbonate is used to remove water hardness.

      

Describe how sodium carbonate is used to remove water hardness.

  

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John
Sodium carbonate provides carbonate ions which combine with calcium/magnesium ions that cause hardness to form precipitates of calcium carbonate or magnesium carbonate, respectively.
johnmulu answered the question on February 15, 2017 at 06:02


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