aluminium sulphate
Britishnoun
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The water was poisoned when a relief delivery driver mistakenly tipped 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the wrong tank at Lowermoor water treatment works.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2018
Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate were tipped into the wrong tank at a treatment works on 6 July 1988, contaminating water to 20,000 homes.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2018
State and federal regulators have raised concerns about build-up of aluminium sulphate in reservoir sediments, and its potential effects on fish and aquatic organisms.
From Nature ● Aug. 21, 2013
So they made it lighter, using aluminium sulphate, which gave you rickets.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2010
In this process the free sulphuric acid formed by the oxidation of pyrites reacts upon the argillaceous material to form aluminium sulphate.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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