what happens when you put alum in tap water?

Question and answer

Question

Asked 11/19/2008 9:40:56 AM

Updated 2/10/2025 11:15:02 AM

1 Answer/Comment

This conversation has been flagged as incorrect.

Get an answer

Search for an answer or ask Weegy.

Original conversation

User: what happens when you put alum in tap water?

Weegy: [www.ih2000.net/chembio/water.htm]

Question

Asked 11/19/2008 9:40:56 AM

Updated 2/10/2025 11:15:02 AM

1 Answer/Comment

This conversation has been flagged as incorrect.

New answers

Rating

cruz30

When alum is added to tap water, it acts as a coagulant, causing impurities and suspended particles to clump together and settle at the bottom. This process, called flocculation, helps purify the water by making it clearer and safer for consumption.

Added 2/10/2025 11:15:02 AM

This answer has been confirmed as correct and helpful.

Comments

There are no comments.

Add an answer or comment

40,361,192

questions answered

WINDOWPANE is the live-streaming app for sharing your life as it happens, without filters, editing, or anything fake.

Because you're already amazing.

Connect with others, with spontaneous photos and videos, and random live-streaming. Post thoughts, events, experiences, and milestones, as you travel along the path that is uniquely yours.

Share your world.

Popular Conversations

A 1 mol gas compressed from 8 L to 2 L at constant temperature 300 K. ...

3/10/2026 9:51:50 AM| 3 Answers

What is the hardest quiz topic

3/10/2026 2:14:48 PM| 3 Answers

Which of the following costs at a manufacturing company would be ...

3/11/2026 2:51:43 AM| 3 Answers

Compute the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for a company ...

3/6/2026 9:14:41 AM| 2 Answers

Calculate expected value of rolling a fair 6-sided die.

3/6/2026 9:15:28 AM| 2 Answers

Determine probability of 3 successes in 5 Bernoulli trials with p = ...

3/6/2026 9:19:12 AM| 2 Answers

Determine resultant vector of A=5i+2j, B=3i+6j.

3/6/2026 9:19:34 AM| 2 Answers

What's a primary reason the disaster relief response to the 2010 ...

Weegy: 1 + 1 = 2 User: What's one benefit of putting information on a wiki? Weegy: The information is more likely ...

3/8/2026 5:38:04 AM| 2 Answers

1 mol of ideal gas expands isothermally from 3 L to 9 L at ...

Weegy: Given: n = 1 mol, V1 = 5 L, V2 = 20 L, T = 300 K Isothermal expansion: S = nR ln(V2/V1) R = 8.314 J/mol?K S = ...

3/9/2026 10:38:44 AM| 2 Answers

Upon arriving at a scene, if the officer encounters a person who is ...

3/9/2026 4:23:59 PM| 2 Answers

A pipeline of radius 5 cm carries water at velocity 2.4 m/s. ...

3/10/2026 11:46:11 AM| 2 Answers

Lines of longitude are also known as

Weegy: Longitude, is the east-west (Side to Side) geographic coordinate measurement most commonly used in cartography ...

3/10/2026 2:43:17 PM| 2 Answers

Order Points Ratings Comments Invitations

Candy_12

Points 28 [Total 98] Ratings 0 Comments 28 Invitations 0 Offline

ProFactChecker

Points 9 [Total 9] Ratings 0 Comments 9 Invitations 0 Offline

Find»

* Excludes moderators and previous
winners (Include)