Vacuum.-By creating a vacuum the process of decalcification can be characterized as follows: Insoluble calciurn-salts+acid o-soluble calciumsalts+CO2. The carbon dioxide, rapidly extracted, will disturb the balance of the chemical equilibrium, and, according to Le Chatelier, result in an acceleration of the reaction. Waerhaug (1949), however, points out that there will be a more intensive conta...
