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Desalination

Volume 1, Issue 3, October 1966, Pages 260-266
Desalination

Polymers that inhibit the deposition of calcium sulphate

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Abstract

The factors which influence the formation of scales in evaporators are discussed with particular reference to calcium sulphate precipitation. The synthesis of a range of acrylic acid homopolymers and copolymers, and their evaluation in preventing calcium sulphate precipitation is described.

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