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Why you get green hair in a swimming pool?

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Its because of the chlorine. The blue color deposits on your golden color and creates an ashy green effect.

The above is totally wrong. Chlorine does NOT cause green hair, copper does. Sources of copper in pools are commonly algaecides, "multi-action" chlorine tablets and shocks, ionizers and mineral cartridge systems, copper pipes used to plumb the pool (common on older pools), and the fill water used.

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