Which outcome reduces hardness in water treatment when using a softening resin?

💡 Explanation

When hardness-causing ions displace cations within a resin, cation exchange capacity decreases because divalent ions accumulate, therefore hardness reduces, rather than increased anion transport or osmotic effects that are unrelated to the mechanism.

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