How does potassium chloride used in a water softener affect your health.?
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The main problem would be someone who requires a low sodium diet drinking the water.
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Hard Water--\nHard water is water that has a high mineral content (water with a low mineral content is known as soft water). This content usually consists of high levels of metal ions, mainly calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) in the form of carbonates, but may include several other metals as well as bicarbonates and sulfates. While it is not generally dangerous to safety or health, it does generally cause potentially costly nuisance problems in the home and in industry. On the other hand, hard water is considered to be ideal for brewing certain styles of beer. Kentucky's distinctive Bourbon whiskey owes its flavor in part to the high calcium content of its groundwater (compared to the pilsener style of beer, the brewing of which requires very soft water). Some hard water chemicals, particularly silicates and calcium carbonate, are also effective corrosion inhibitors, and can prevent damage to pipes or contamination by potentially toxic corrosion products.\n\nThe simplest way to determine if water is hard or soft is the lather/froth test. If the water is very soft, soap will tend to lather up easily when agitated, whereas with hard water it will not. Toothpaste will also not froth well in hard water. More exact methods of hardness detection use a wet titration method to determine hardness
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Water has (relatively) high cohesion, due to the polar covalent bonding of the water molecule. Soap destroys this covalency by adhering to water molecules with its ionic end. This is why soap is used as a cleanser. Soap itself doesn't clean, it disperses water molecules, thus increasing water's absorption properties. Without water's cohesive ability, items that float on the surface of water now sink.
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Potassium is SO flammable, that if it is dropped in WATER it will rip the oxygen away from the hydrogen and burst into flames! \n\nThat is why it is kept in oil or kerosene, to avoid the possibility that it will come into contact with any moisture. Lithium and sodium will also burn with water this way. Magnesium will spontaneously burn with steam, not liquid water.
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it helps keep the system clean. water is good for you, you cannot servive w/out water. if you drink it daily, you have to use the bathroom a lot, but this is good for the kidneys. it's good for the skin, & the more water in take, the less of bad breath you have(of coarse you still have to brush, but, water helps too)
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The kitchen salt has nothing to do with the natural salt.\nOur kitchen salt, mostly sodium chloride, has not many contact points with the element at the original state, in other words what it is necessary to live. \nThrough the industrial process the salt is chemically wiped put and reduced to sodium chlorite; the minerals and the oligo elements are simply considered impurities and as such they get discarded. Sodium chloride, so treated and unnatural, has nothing to do with its nature, with being in its totality or with genuine salt that, on the other hand hols all the natural elements (84 minerals), the same ones that make our body.\n\nThe kitchen salt affects our body\nThe kitchen salt is a poison for the cells. It gets eliminated or made non harmful by our body sacrificing precious resources. \nThe body has an intelligent protection devise which identifies the kitchen salt as an aggressive poison for the cells and detects in itan harmful an unnatural substance which has to be discarded as soon as possible. This is the reason why our excretory organs are constantly over burdened. The body tries to make the excess kitchen salt non harmful isolating it. Sodium chlorite is surrounded by water molecules which neutralise it, ionising it in sodium and chlorine. This means that the body has no choice but to sacrifice the highly structured water of its own cells in order to make sodium chlorite non harmful. The cells, so dehydrated and deprived by its own vital force, die.
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By ridding your body of fluids, you also rid your body of electrolytes like potassium.  This can cause heart problems.  It's important to take diuretics only under a doctor's supervision.
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Chlorine in the water is probably bad for us in the long run, but if it wasn't there we'd be dead already from cholera or typhus.  There is no such thing as "safe", you just need to gauge the amount of risk you are willing to tolerate for an enjoyable life for you and your family.
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That is why I only trust on tap water from home with a system that would remove most or allchemicals and metals in the water. Others have bacteria and metals that make you become poisoned, damage your nerves or make you ill.
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Depends on your salt substitute, but the answer you're looking for is probably Cl- as your salt substitute probably contains KCl.
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Hard water just has many minerals in it that can cause rust colored rings in the toilet and also not allow laundry detergent to get sudsy.  \n\nHow to Test for Hard Water \n\nMaterials Required\n\nWater hardness test strip\nSample of water you use to bathe (shower or tub)\nEasy Steps for Testing Hardness of Water\n\nRemove one water hardness test strip from the bottle of water hardness strips or open the single water hardness test strip. Refer to key on side of bottle indicating the levels of hardness.\nInsert water hardness test strip into water sample for a few seconds then remove from water. Indicator strip will indicate the level of hardness (presence of calcium).\nPlace water hardness test strip alongside key on side of bottle to identify the level of hardness.\nGreen = Soft  Brown = Hard Water  Orange = Very Hard Water \n\nRefer to Malibu Wellness Water Analysis Table to interpret your water hardness test and specifically how your water is affecting your hair, scalp and skin.\n\nRefer to HAIR SOLUTIONS, SCALP SOLUTIONS or SKIN SOLUTIONS for the recommended Malibu MakeOver and system kit for your specific condition. \n\nHow to Test for Chlorine \n\nMaterials Required\n\nChlorine Indicator Kit (purchase at your local pool supply store)\nSample of water*\nClear glass\n*Note that chlorine evaporates rapidly. Therefore, test for chlorine as soon after you draw your water sample as possible.\n\nEasy Steps for Testing Chlorine\n\nDraw sample from your shower or bath (where you bathe your hair and skin). Allow the water to run for one minute and collect up to 3 ounces of cold or cool water into a clear glass or container. Do not draw hot water.\nDispense 6-10 drops of Chlorine Indicator into the sample of water and shake or swirl water around in glass or container.\nIf the water remains clear, there is no residual chlorine in the water at that time. If the water turns yellow, this indicates chlorine is present in the water. If the water turns very yellow or a greenish color, this indicates a high level of chlorine that may exceed the legal standards for chlorine required by states for swimming pool sanitation.
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because the salt u use in the kitchen does not contain all the particals in the sea water like sodium sulphate magnesium sulphate etc because they are removed in the process  of making the salt and some times the salt it cut down from deep earth and they are also cleaned by removing the toxic particles and iodised which may alter the sea water salt from earth solt altho the main component of salt is Na Cl it has other particals such as iodine and k+ irons Fe ect...
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Pure potassium is a metal, though you generally won't find it lying around since it reacts violently with water.  It needs to be kept in oil to keep it from reacting with the moisture in the air.  As far as I know it doesn't smell like anything other than the oil it's been kept in.\n\nOtherwise potassium is found in many chemical compounds, in general it is not toxic, but is actually an essential mineral for life similar to sodium.  Some of these compounds would have an odor -- particularly the sulfur compounds -- but not usually from the potassium.\n\nlike the guy below me said, if you're afraid of potassium don't eat any bananas.  :D
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Potassium Cyanide affects the ultimate step of the respiration, that is transfer of electron to Oxygen to form water. It stops this step and therefore no electron transfer takes place and therefore no Oxygen utilization. \n\nI've heard that Potassium Cyanide effect can be reversed if the person is given Methylene Blue immediately. Though I am not sure about it.
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The KCl, definitely.  Conductivity in water is greatly enhanced by the presence of ions.  Deionized water actually has fewer ions in it than ordivnary tap water, so it's a really terrible conductor.  KCl, on the other hand, dissolves into K+ and Cl- in water, so there are a whole lot of ions in a solution of KCl.
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It is the estimation of sodium, potassium, chloride in your blood.
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Are you asking about a chlorine generator that uses salt water? Such things do exist. Several brands. All of them are fairly expensive, not electrically efficient (the electricity they use costs more than the chlorine they make), and very unreliable. Plus, they are expensive to repair. And, they break down a lot! You still are using chlorine to sanitize your water so what have you gained? Silly idea, isn't it? Take my advice. STAY AWAY from the things!