Answer:
Water hardness is the high amount of dissolve mineral or ions as calcium, magnesium etc in the water.
If i want to use hard water for my textile dye processing,1st i need to make this hard water into soft water through different reactions for good results.
Water can be hard in two ways. They are:
1.Temporary hardness and
2.permanent hardness.
Temporary hardness:
Temporary hardness is caused by calcium or magnesium hydrogen carbonet.For making this Temporary water to soft water, we have to boiling this and make by using calcium reaction like
Ca(HCO3)2+Ca(OH)2→2CaCO3↓+2H2O
Mg(HCO3)2+2Ca(OH)2→2MgCO3+2H2O
MgCO3+Ca(OH)2→Mg(OH)2+CaCO3
Permanent hardness is caused by calcium or magnesium sulphate.
CaSO4+Na2CO3→CaCO3+Na2SO4
MgSO4+Na2CO3→MgCO3+Na2SO4
MgCO3+Ca(OH)2→Mg(OH)2+CaCO3
For above that we can see permanent hardness remove by the chemical treatment but temporary hardness is remove by both boiling and temporary treatment