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“Hard” water has a high concentration of calcium and magnesium ions. Focusing on the calcium ion, a common home water -softening process is based on a reversible chemical change that can be expressed by
Zeolite ions are used in home water softners because they have a porous but rigid structure that is weakly attracted to cations, readily allowing an exchange among different ions.
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