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antiscalants

antiscalants is the plural of antiscalant.

Meaning of antiscalant

Noun

antiscalant (plural antiscalants)

  1. Material preventing or slowing scaling of a surface.
    • Antiscalants inhibit scaling by one or more of the following mechanisms: threshold effect which keeps scalant ions in solution, crystal distortion by absorbing onto the crystal surface at active sites preventing further growth, and finally by dispersancy where a surface charge is added onto the...2001, Siobhán Francesca E. Boerlage, Scaling and Particulate Fouling in Membrane Filtration Systems, page 15
    Synonyms:
    scale control additive

Questions about antiscalants

What is antiscalants the plural of?
Antiscalants is the plural of antiscalant.

Words near antiscalants in the dictionary

  1. antisavage
  2. antiscab
  3. antiscabies
  4. antiscabious
  5. antiscalant
  6. antiscalants
  7. antiscald
  8. antiscale
  9. antiscalent
  10. antiscalents
  11. antiscaling

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