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RETROGRADE SOLUBILITY [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Processing
  • Copper and Copper Alloys (Metallurgy)
  • Geochemistry
CONT

Some salts ... show ... inverted solubility curves; precipitation ... takes place at the tube wall with the formation of ... scale.

CONT

... the Mg is totally removed from the descending progressively heated seawater, through retrograde solubility of Mg-hydroxysulphates such as caminite ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation des métaux
  • Cuivre et alliages du cuivre (Métallurgie)
  • Géochimie
CONT

Il en résulte une précipitation [...] sous forme de tartre [c'est presque toujours un sel à solubilité inverse] qui est à l'origine de l'entartrage.

CONT

[...] le Mg a été totalement extrait de l'eau de mer progressivement réchauffée au cours de sa migration descendante, par solubilité inverse (précipitation) d'hydroxysulfates de Mg tels que la caminite [...]

Spanish

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