aluminium sulphate

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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His findings dictate how much aluminium sulphate must be added.

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Using a system of pipes and pumps, water is drawn from the river into floatation tanks, where aluminium sulphate is added to remove the sediment.

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Aluminium sulphate was released into the river from the Glenfarg Water Treatment Works overnight.

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