chlorine gets used up too fast in swimming pool why?
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First of all, make sure that your test kit's reagents are still good. If they've ever frozen or are over a year old, they're no good.\n If your reagents are good, then what about your chlorinator. You shouldn't need to use a floatie with a chlorinator at the equipment. Also, you ought to be putting more than 2 tabs in that chlorinator. The usual method is to half fill it and adjust the flow to it as needed on the dial. Perhaps the chlorinator is plugged. They do get mucked up.\n Are you testing for Total alkalinity? If not, you should be. It's more important than PH or Cl as it is what governs whether everything else works, water chemistry wise.\n Have you taken your water in to a pool shop to have the cyanuric acid (stabilizer) levels checked? Too low a stabilizer level and the cl gets zapped out by ultra violet in no time. To high a level is not good either and may require a partial pool dump and fill.Stabilizer levels affect Cl levels.\n\n Yes, it could be phosphates. Is your pool green or does it flip to green in hours? Usually caused by not having proper sanitizer levels or bad water chemistry ( that TA thing again)\n\n Are you shocking once a week.?Yep, you're supposed to. Shock ing over chlorinates the pool briefly, to get rid of what the chlorine pucks couldn't deal with during the week. No shock, no chlorine reserves left.\n There are many things unique to your back yard that may be doing this as well. Are there a lot of organics constantly falling in the pool? What's the bather load, is yours the only pool in town?
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As you are thinking - no, it doesn't. It stays in solution in the water. If / when some water evaporates, remember that chlorine will just dry, because chlorine has chemically bonded to other minerals in the water so that it can't become a gas. That's the residue left behind (or a part of it, anyway) when the drops in your shower dry.\n\nHowever, let's just say that chlorine does turn into an gas when the water evaporates (for argument's sake). The amount of chlorine in the water is measured using PPM, or Part Per Million. Thus, the level of chlorine that is in the water is so low (just enough to kill micro organisms), that it would cause no ill health effects to either you or me.
108256
More than likely a chlorine gas I would rec. NOT experimenting with the two. I work in the water treatment field. Trust me
1035946
your eyes cannot handle the amount of impurities in the waters of the ocean or pool... what make your eyes burn is them trying to clean all that stuff up.. Its ok if you do it for a little bit, because the eyes are one of the fastest healing tissues in the body.. but you dont want to do it often enough that you damage the tissue permanently
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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!
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Neither, the biggest human made problem is caused by swimming pools and the millions of gallons of chlorine that evaporate into the atmosphere.\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=%22ozone+layer%22+%22Swimming+pools%22\n\nhttp://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/sc_fact.html
790144
Probably to keep any chlorine produced from migrating over to the produced sodium. It reacts with the iron on its way.
576716
Whatever the cost is don't let them use gas chlorine.  It will destroy any pool.  Usually companies that charge the lowest rates will use gas chlorine because it is cheap.  What they don't tell you is that you shouldn't swim in the pool for at least 2-3 days after treatment and that it does eat away the plaster lining of the pool causing you to have to make repairs much earlier than normal wear and tear.
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It depends on the levels. Very high is very bad for you. Chlorine is used to kill most germs in the pools. In Europe there are 2 pools, 1 which you swim in and the other to treat the water where the chloramines (cancer causing) are kept to a very very small level. In North America they use a different system which is much cheaper but uses higher levels of Ozone in their surge tank which gives a higher risk of cancer. Chlorine can cause also breathing problems and irritate your eyes. Also is can turn bleached hair green. On the plus side it can whiten your teeth. Flourine is similar to chlorine and is still in the tap water in North America due to the fact it gives you whiter, healthier teeth. But in Britain this was stopped some time ago due to the fact that it can cause health problems (still wonder why the Brits have bad teeth?). North America goes wholescale on all the water treatment processes from drinking water to swimming pools which is why costs are cheaper but health issues are sometimes skipped over. But the risk of swimming in un-chlorinated water is far greater! It is basically a stagnant lake otherwise. So chlorine can cause cancer on a small level but in North America it can be improved upon by implementing the decontaminating routine used in Germany where most chloramines are removed before people go swimming.
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No.  Thanks to the popularity of swimming pools, scientists are used to seeing chlorine in urine and know exactly how to measure it and what it means.
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Keep the chlorine level at 1.5 ppm and shock regularly and it is not a problem. It is, however, not socially acceptable. But no one is going to get a disease from it-- IF the chemicals are maintained properly. We "carry" a lot of foreign matter into a pool when we go in. Saliva, dead skin, hair, dandruff, etc., etc. That's why pool sanitizers are necessary! Plus, a pool being an open vessel, is constantly bombarded with air borne contamination. Rain water does infinately more damage to a pool than a little urine.
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One advantage is the concept of chlorine residual.  When chlorine is added to the water at the treatment plant, it stays in the water until the very last house on the line.  As you can imagine, there are a lot of potential water contaminants that could occur in the pipes between the plant and the last house on the line.  Since there is a chlorine residual - or chlorine still in the water - those potential contaminants are taken care of.\nOzone only treats the water at the plant and there is no residual to clean any potential contamination.  Also, ozone can only be mixed on-site, whereas chlorine is easily transportable.
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heterogeneous - Ever wonder why you need filters?  \n\nPipes go bad and you'll see that rust color.  Chlorine is added to disinfect the water.  What cannot be killed lives in your water, if you haven't filtered it yet.  It is not good to drink hot water because you'll have more particles dissolved in water such as lead, etc.
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Use an inline ionizer instead of chlorine. It takes one cartridge a year an you mainly use chlorine only to shock the pool. \nYou may need a little chlorine with a lot of use but this system works great.
1057337
Public pools and locker rooms are hot beds for germs. Plus the chlorine from the pool, while it supposedly disinfects the water, nevertheless can be a source of distress, especially if the chlorine levels are not carefully monitored. Chlorine is a dangerous element, a toxic poison on its own, and when it is overdone, it can be toxic to the body. Even taking a shower, one is breathing in the chlorine gas as it steams into the air. I would stop going to that pool; your body is trying to tell you something. Use echinacea and goldenseal to overcome any infection you might have, as well as monolaurin (lauric acid), if  you can get your hands on it.
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Bleach has Chlorine.  Chlorine gas reacts swiftly with water to produce HCl, a very powerful acid.  When chlorine enters your nose or lungs, it reacts with the water there and you get a burning sensation that your body reacts violently to.  Your body is so sensitive to chlorine that your nose will detect the presence of chlorine faster and at lower levels than an electronic detector.
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Same AMOUNT of chloride ions as before.  But now there's less water.  So the concentration goes up a bit.