{"id":3973,"date":"2017-03-02T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/?post_type=avada_faq&#038;p=3973"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:43:51","slug":"what-causes-scale-to-deposit","status":"publish","type":"avada_faq","link":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/?avada_faq=what-causes-scale-to-deposit","title":{"rendered":"What causes scale to deposit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If your water is soft meaning low in har\u00addness minerals you generally don&#8217;t have an issue with limescale deposits. Howeve\u00adr, if you have hard water (most people do) and it&#8217;s not treated you&#8217;ll see calcium carbonate deposits on your fixtures etc. So, what causes scale to deposit?<\/p>\n<p>When calcium levels become supersaturated in water it can no longer be held in solution and it&#8217;s for\u00adced out, combining with bicarbonate to form calcium carbonate in its calcite sta\u00adte. There are two ma\u00adin causes of supersa\u00adturation:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Temperature incre\u00adase, the most obvious as we see scale in kettles and on heat elements.<\/li>\n<li>A pH increase, of\u00adten due to a drop in pressure as carbonic acid flashes off as CO2 (think of the pssssst when you open Coke bottle). The acid reduction causes the pH to shoot up. You&#8217;ll have noticed cold water scaling at drinking water fountains.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"faq_category":[29,42,45,173],"class_list":["post-3973","avada_faq","type-avada_faq","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","faq_category-water","faq_category-water-conditioning","faq_category-water-facts","faq_category-water-treatment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/3973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/3973\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atipure.com\/store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ffaq_category&post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}