Note.
In view of the increasing importance laid upon a knowledge of the chemical formation of feed water, these chapters of Chemical Terms and Analysis of Feed Waters are given to indicate the direction in which the advanced engineer must push his inquiries. There are more millions of treasure to be made by properly “treating” the water which enters the steam generators of the world than can be extracted from its gold mines.
An important “point” is to make sure, before adopting any permanent system for purifying the waters of a steam plant, that it is always the same in its ingredients, i.e., that the impurities contained in the water are the same at all times.