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The influence of electromagnetic fields from two commercially available water-treatment devices on calcium carbonate precipitation

Chathuri Piyadasa, Thomas R. Yeager, Stephen Gray, MB Stewart, H. F. Ridgway, Costas Pelekani, John D. Orbell

Environmental Science Water Research & Technology · 2017 · 27 citations · 19 references

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CaCO<sub>3</sub>precipitation profiles, tracked by absorbance at 350 nm, showing accelerated precipitation upon exposure of the parent solutions to a pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) from a commercially available device.

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