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Limescale or lime build up- Limescale is the hard, white, chalky stuff found in kettles, hot-water boilers and the inside of hot-water heating systems. It is also often found as a similar deposit on the inner surface of old pipes and other surfaces where hard water has been.

 

 

 

Packaged water softeners- Things you can buy in stores to control your water hardness, some people that work for a water company suggest that people should use them once a month to prevent water hardness

 

 

 

Dissolved metals- Dissolved metals is metal that has dissolved in water, it can be caused by sewege and run offs.

 

 

 

 

Lather- Soap dissolving

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dissolving- Example- A bar of soap. If you use it in a shower their will be bubbles, the bubbles are peices of the soap dissolving.

 

 

 

Evaporated- Example- A bucket of water. If you put a bucket of water outside on a warm day and wait a few hours, some of the water will be gone. That means it evaporated.