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Descaling vs Antiscalant - What's the difference?

descaling | antiscalant |

As nouns the difference between descaling and antiscalant

is that descaling is the removal of scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc while antiscalant is material preventing or slowing scaling of a surface.

As a verb descaling

is present participle of lang=en.

descaling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The removal of scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.

    • antiscalant

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) Material preventing or slowing scaling of a surface.
  • * 2001 , Siobhán Francesca E. Boerlage, Scaling and Particulate Fouling in Membrane Filtration Systems , page 15
    • Antiscalants inhibit scaling by one or more of the following mechanisms: threshold effect which keeps scalant ions in solution, crystal distortion by absorbing onto the crystal surface at active sites preventing further growth, and finally by dispersancy where a surface charge is added onto the crystals so that they repel one another, reducing their ability to adhere to each other and equipment surfaces, hence, they remain in solution.

    Synonyms

    * scale control additive