Hard water - not filtered by water board?

[NY]

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.

[charles]

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

[charles]

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

[NY]

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

which is on the east coast.

[Tim Streater]

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.

[Rob Morley]

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

I used to go through Bermuda occasionally.

[charles]

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

[mechanic]

Not bad for brown ale making either!

[charles]

Mostly from Keilder - rain water.

You mean like Dallas in Moray and Houston in Renfrewshire

[Rob Morley]

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

although this works just as well and is only 79 characters).

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

[Ed Pawlowski]

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

[Graham.]

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.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

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

[Tim Streater]

If you neutralise them, then:

1) a current must flow, where does that come from? 2) the now neutral calcium atoms would immediately react with the water to produce calcium hydroxide and hydrogen. So you're back where you started: with calcium ions in solution.

[alan_m]

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

[Graham.]

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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.

[Rob Morley]

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.

[alan_m]

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

15 years ago. Most modern kettles have a different form of element and are constructed differently. If you read some of the Amazon reviews on mid priced kettles a common complaint is that they start leaking.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

All the best people come from Manchester. Droysden .........

[alan_m]

So bad they stopped brewing it there!