incrustant
incrustant adjective: tending to leave an incrustation on a boiler or other container when the containing water evaporates.
Adjective
incrustant (comparative more incrustant, superlative most incrustant)
- Tending to leave an incrustation on a boiler or other container when the containing water evaporates.
- It is the practice at the Columbus plant to leave between 25 and 40 parts per million incrustant hardness in the water.1915, Ohio's Health - Volume 5, page 721
- For the sessile fauna it was found that the visible first settlers were present after one week and were the incrustant forms of one species of foraminifera and one species of a red calcareous algae.1972, James Woodell Miller, John G. VanDerwalker, Richard A. Waller, Scientists-in-the-sea, page WF-212
Noun
incrustant (plural incrustants)
- Any substance that is dissolved in water which forms an incrustation when the water evaporates.
- The total incrustants in the water, expressed in terms of calcium carbonate, are clearly the sum of their component bases, calcium and magnesium, expressed in terms of calcium carbonate.1905, The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Aluminum also is an incrustant present in most waters in quantities so small that it is not necessary to consider it; but when too much aluminum sulphate, a substance frequently used as a coagulant in filtering water, is added in the process of filtering, the excess passes through the filter and...1909, Water-supply Paper, page 188
Examples of incrustant in a sentence
- Split-lime softened water after blending is usually incrustant and difficult to filter unless fully recarbonated or acid treated.1972, Proceedings - Water Quality Conference, page 76:
- Solid particles of incrustant can be removed along with any fine sediments that may have entered the zone immediately around the screen after the well was placed in service.1986, Fletcher G. Driscoll, Groundwater and Wells, page 644:
Forms of incrustant
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more incrustant |
| superlative | most incrustant |
| Noun | |
| plural | incrustants |
Origin of incrustant
From incrust + -ant.
Questions about incrustant
- What does incrustant mean?
- Incrustant means tending to leave an incrustation on a boiler or other container when the containing water evaporates.
- How do you use incrustant in a sentence?
- Split-lime softened water after blending is usually incrustant and difficult to filter unless fully recarbonated or acid treated.
- What part of speech is incrustant?
- Incrustant can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near incrustant in the dictionary
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