Chlorine works as a disinfectant in pools or water treatment facilities/plant. It kills all the pathogenic organisms in water or reduce them to levels that will not cause diseases. It is the most important step in water treatment.
Working with chlorine gas is very dangerous, chlorine gas is extremely poisonous. If you need to work with chlorine gas you need to wear protective clothing, work in a fume hood with gloves. do not attempt to produce it yourself.
It is best to add chlorine in the evening, during the day there is a good chance the sun will burn it out before it gets a chance to work.
It does the exact same thing as normal bleach but it does not have chlorine. It still oxidizes but uses different chemicals to oxidize. Please refer to the following link.
Chlorine is an elemental gas. The only atoms in chlorine are CHLORINE. A molecule of chlorine contains two atoms of chlorine (Cl2 ; Cl - Cl) Chlorine is found in the Periodic Table.
Chlorine is a gas
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Working with chlorine gas is very dangerous, chlorine gas is extremely poisonous. If you need to work with chlorine gas you need to wear protective clothing, work in a fume hood with gloves. do not attempt to produce it yourself.
Free Chlorine is the Chlorine which is free to do its work in the pool, as opposed to Combined Chlorine which is chlorine that has combined with contaminants and is tied up and ineffective as a sanitizer in the pool. Sometimes you will see it abbreviated as FAC, which stands for Free Available Chlorine.
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Chlorine doesn't necessarilly work better at night. Your pool professional may tell you to add your chlorine at nite, because chlorine is emensly effected by the sun. there is achemical called "cyanuric acid", or "chlorine stabilizer". This chemical helps prevent the breakdown of the chlorine molecule in the sun's rays.
Not recommended to work at home with chlorine !
It is best to add chlorine in the evening, during the day there is a good chance the sun will burn it out before it gets a chance to work.
Many people are switching to saltwater instead of chlorine because it is less harsh.
GregorS wrote:Dismantle the head , soak the parts in chlorine for a few hours. Reassemble.--I am not sure that works, see:http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/50fe20a5a5376631bbad2024f89b02c0.htmlThis suggests that chlorine encourages future growth of Mycobacterium gordonae, although it is unclear if it initially kills the bacterium. Several news media stories on this topic simply say that chlorine does not work, but without specifying how the chlorine was applied.I strongly suspect that if chlorine is to work at all, the shower head should first be dismantled as suggested above. However, many showerheads (particularly the plastic ones which are indicted to be more receptive to this bacteria) cannot be dismantled without destroying or damaging the showerhead.Anyway, it is not at all clear in any of the references whether chlorine was found not to work at all; or, that it does not work if applied topically or with the showerhead immersed (as an intact assembly) in chlorine.If chlorine does not work, what (if anything), that is available in retail outlets, does work? Any comments?Enquire (2009-09-17)--
Chlorine has an atomic mass of 35.453.
It does the exact same thing as normal bleach but it does not have chlorine. It still oxidizes but uses different chemicals to oxidize. Please refer to the following link.
I can't answer the initial question if chlorine generators give off high chlorine false readings. I have an inline chlorine dispenser and it seems to work just fine for me. But the second part of the question asking if high chlorine will give false readings for pH and TA. I have read that somewhere and I am currently researching to validate that finding.