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Why Grahams salt is used for treating permanent hardness of water?

Option: 1

It decomposes the sulphates.

 


Option: 2

It decomposes the bicarbonates.

 


Option: 3

It reacts with the sulphates to carbonates.

 


Option: 4

It sequesters the cations.


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Graham's salt is \left(\mathrm{NaPO}_3\right)_n that sequesters the \mathrm{Ca}^{2+} and \mathrm{Mg}^{2+}  ions and keeps them solvated in water.

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