Yes, it recalls to mind very early boiler treatments that used potato starch and/or quebracho tannins.  Of course, the development of water soluble medium to low molecular weight polymers (not necessarily containing any phosphorus functionality) improved immensely on these.  Obviously, this new development could really be a plus where economically competitive and high performance cellulose nanomaterial can be applied with far better results.  The next question, can it reverse hard to inhibit scales such as iron-clay cementums?

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Yes, it recalls to mind very early boiler treatments that used potato starch and/or quebracho tannins.  Of course, the development of water soluble medium to low molecular weight polymers (not necessarily containing any phosphorus functionality) improved immensely on these.  Obviously, this new development could really be a plus where economically competitive and high performance cellulose nanomaterial can be applied with far better results.  The next question, can it reverse hard to inhibit scales such as iron-clay cementums?