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02/23/2019, 03:27 PM | #1 |
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What color is the precipitate from lanthanum chloride
I have been dosing lanthanum chloride into a 5 micron sock. The sock is getting a rust colored stain on it. Any idea if this is the precipitate from the phosphate? I also run gfo and thought maybe the rust color stain is gfo powder escaping the reactor
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02/23/2019, 03:44 PM | #2 |
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White / use a 5 ml vile with tank water add 2 drops lanthanum and shake
let it sit for a while and on the bottom of the vile is what it looks like |
02/23/2019, 04:22 PM | #3 |
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It’s white. You’re likely seeing GFO particles in your sock unless you’re leaving the sock in the sump for long periods of time in which case it could be organic matter or even some sort of algae if there is a light near by.
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02/23/2019, 06:23 PM | #4 |
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Thanks, its the gfo then. I am using the returns from my reactors to dump into the sock. Never realized that the gfo would get into the water column like that
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