limescale meaning
ENWLimescale
- Limescale is the hard, off-white, chalky deposit found in kettles, hot-water boilers and the inside of inadequately maintained hot-water central heating systems.
- It is also often found as a similar deposit on the inner surface of old pipes and other surfaces where "hard water" has evaporated.
- The type found deposited on the heating elements of water heaters has a main component of calcium carbonate. Hard water contains calcium (and often magnesium) bicarbonate or similar ions.
- Ca2+ + 2HCO3− ⇋ Ca2+ + CO32− + CO2 + H2O
- Noun
- A white, chalky deposit of calcium carbonate found in kettles, washing machines etc., especially in a hard water area.
- A white, chalky deposit of calcium carbonate found in kettles, washing machines etc., especially in a hard water area.
Definition of limescale in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Nouns
- en limescaled
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "limescale" is a noun, more specifically, a singularia tantum.