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HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: Samstag on January 26, 2011, 05:49:33 pm ---Salt pools don't do nasty things to my eyes or skin the way even a lightly chlorinated pool does.

Edit:  And they don't smell like chlorine.

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Its when urine mixes with chlorine that it creates an irritant.

Samstag:

--- Quote from: HarumaN on January 27, 2011, 10:19:54 am ---
--- Quote from: Samstag on January 26, 2011, 05:49:33 pm ---Salt pools don't do nasty things to my eyes or skin the way even a lightly chlorinated pool does.

Edit:  And they don't smell like chlorine.

--- End quote ---

Its when urine mixes with chlorine that it creates an irritant.

--- End quote ---

Chlorine readily mixes with lots of things and usually produces an unpleasant result.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: Blanka on January 27, 2011, 01:39:19 am ---
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on January 26, 2011, 05:12:32 pm ---Bromine.

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I may hope not. Bromine is toxic.

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Thats kinda the point.  Find the level that kills the bad things in the water, but not the swimmers.

Think of it as pool antibiotics.

Gray_Area:
You can eat salt. You can't eat or drink Chlorine.

AtomSmasher:
My dad is a pool man, and I even worked the route for a number of months when he was sick, so you'd think I'd have something useful to contribute to this conversation, but I don't.

Instead I'll tell you what my dad tells his customers when their dogs start swimming in the pools. 
"Dogs are usually loaded with lots of harmful bacteria and when the dogs swim in the pool, that bacteria gets into the pool as well.  Then, when your kids go swimming, that bacteria gets into your children's ears and causes an awful infection.  In most cases the only way to save the their lives is to cut off their heads."

 :)

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