aluminium sulphate

British

noun

a white crystalline salt used in the paper, textile, and dyeing industries and in the purification of water. Formula: Al 2 (SO 4 ) 3

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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

It will be noted that water “A,” in which the colour had been reduced to 3 p.p.m. by coagulation with aluminium sulphate, required a greater dosage of chlorine than was necessary for bactericidal action only.

From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph

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