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How to pronounce descale in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms scale
Type of remove, take, take away, withdraw

Examples of descale

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Can they take out my trash, wash my dishes, or descale my coffee pot?
From the forbes.com
It's really noisy, as well as being a bit tricky to descale.
From the independent.co.uk
You need to descale the boiler's heat exchanger.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Tankless water heaters require minimal maintenance, other than periodic flushing to descale them of mineral buildup.
From the sacbee.com
Feedback wonders if this is the same magnetic material that other advertisers claim will descale hot-water pipes.
From the newscientist.com
These plants flush nearly 24 tons of chlorine, 65 tons of algae-harming antiscalants used to descale pipes, and around 300 kg of copper into the Persian Gulf every day.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Scale: remove the scales from; "scale fish"
  • (Descaling) An anti-scaling agent, also known as descaling agent, anti-limestone, anti-limescale, anti-lime or anti-scale are preparations to prevent the buildup or to remove limescale and fouling. ...
  • (Descaling) a condition in which a fish has lost a certain percentage of scales.
  • (Descaling) removing the thick layer of oxides formed on some metals at elevated temperatures.
  • (Descaling) the removal of fish scales prior to cooking
  • (Descaling (molten salt)) Subjecting oxide annealed austenitic and high allot steel to an oxidizing or reducing salt bath to produce more readily a scale-free surface when pickled in a subsequent step.
  • (Descaling) A process of discovering scale-free intrinsics based on observations at a variety of individual characteristic scales. ...
  • (Descaling) It is necessary to remove the scale from hot rolled bars or coil before bright drawing. This is normally carried out by shot blasting or pickling in acid. Other methods of descaling steel products include sand blasting, flame descaling and tumbling.
  • (Descaling) The process of removing oxide scale from heated stock prior to or during forging operations, using such means as extra blows, wire brushes, scraping devices, or water spray.