Hard water - not filtered by water board?

no they don't break, they just get the element or the sides coated with limescale.

The question still stands.

I've heard it said that some have magnets that "line up the water molecules" so they don't deposit on the pipes and on kettle elements. Or some such pseudo-scientific guff.

Flushing toilets with hard water does leave limescale on the surfaces.

my father used the same kettle in Edinburgh for 20 years - inside it looked like new.

I would imagine "the" Newcastle (on Tyne) rather than the lesser-known Newcastle-under-Lyme. Though I wonder where N-o-T gets it water from and whether their water *is* (moderately) hard.

It's surprising how often I find that well-known towns and cities have much smaller counterparts (typically a small village or hamlet) elsewhere in the UK. Obviously there will be places in the USA which have names that reflect the place where immigrant came from in their original country.

Somewhere that I've lived had a district called California - I used to see it on the bus destination blinds. Not sure where it was, because it's not the one listed in

They might be able to line up the calcium and the carbonate ions, whether that's possible when ions are in solution I don't know. And even if you can, what strength magnet you'd need I don't know either.

There's another in England, one each in Scotland and N.Ireland and several in Eire.

I used to go through Bermuda occasionally.

I know of two of those and one in Wales and one in NI.

Not bad for brown ale making either!

That's not a magic cure for split URLs, it depends on the news client (I think this one handles it properly without angle brackets

Neutralises calcium ions somehow so they don't form calcium carbonate?

That would depend on the degree of hardness and how often you clean the bowl.

On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:18:17 +0100, "NY" coalesced the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension...

IEC C5, I like them and think they sould be more widespread.

Bod has not got out of the southern bubble for 40 years. Life begins and ends in the shithole of the south.

If you neutralise them, then:

And what can happen if you don't...

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I don't think there is any hard tap-water anywhere in Scotland. I bet the supermarkets sell the same range of softening products as they do in London, that's certainly the case here in Manchester.

Dunno, but it's called an electrolytic device ...

Indeed - it's beyond my O-level chemistry to explain, but people seem to think it works and they're probably not all snake-oil enthusiasts.

Again people seem to be writing about the construction of kettles 10 or