When Jardine was again within our circle, Moody asked, “What’s this about some blow poke?”It isn’t here,” Jardine muttered. “What’s a blow poke?” Moody asked us. “A fireplace tool,” George answered.

Her face was alight with happiness.

We need a plumber to unblock the sink.

Antiscalants inhibit scaling by one or more of the following mechanisms: threshold effect which keeps scalant ions in solution, crystal distortion by absorbing onto the crystal surface at active sites preventing further growth, and finally by dispersancy where a surface charge is added onto the crystals so that they repel one another, reducing their ability to adhere to each other and equipment surfaces, hence, they remain in solution.