Chlorine In The Swimming Pool

85% of the swimming pools use chlorine to sanitize. Chlorine can cause dry and irritated skin, as well as damaged hair. It could even cause some sicknesses. A swimmer´s life is not so easy! Is there a way to successfully remove chlorine in a swimmer's hair by making a more efficient swim spray for hair?

It's the middle of summer, and pool parties are in full swing. People enjoy relaxing in cool water on a hot summer day. Kids in the city like to go for a dip in the city recreational pool for fun. Certainly, swimming is a great exercise, burns calories, and is good for your health in general. However, there is a down side. Often, swimmers complain about the strong chlorine odor in the pool. Well, the chlorine provides a very basic function. The chlorine destroys bacteria and germs in the pool water. Or does it?

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The use of chlorine revolutionized pool sanitation and cleanliness in the early 1900s. While there have been large improvements in the construction of pools since the mid-twentieth century, the products available for sanitation and the policies regarding them remain mostly the same today. Chlorine is excellent at keeping bacteria levels down in pools, but there are still improvements to be made and caution must be used during pool maintenance. Chlorine can cause deterioration of the cornea and respiratory issues, including an increase in asthma among individuals who frequent indoor pools. Additionally, chlorinated water runoff from pools and hot tubs into waterways can be detrimental to wildlife, even at rates as low as 0.011 ppm (Olsen,

Chlorine is a yellow-green dense gas. It has a very distinct smell to it and has been used as a chemical weapon. It also kills bacteria and is used as a disinfectant. Chlorine disinfects drinking water and swimming pool water and is also used in organic chemistry. It can be used as an oxidising agent and in substitution reactions.

Chlorine was first discovered by a man whose profession was in the medical field. However, since it was 1774, the technology wasn’t as advanced and therefore led him to misleading conclusions. Carl Wilhelm Sheele was a Swedish pharmacist who, “released a few drops of hydrochloric acid onto a piece of manganese dioxide in his lab, and a greenish-yellow gas was produced in a matter of seconds…” (Alchin, Linda. “The Element Chlorine.” What Is Chlorine?, www.elementalmatter.info/element-chlorine.htm.). Before Sir Humphry Davy, people thought that Chlorine was a form of oxygen. Sir Humphry Davy later proved otherwise. Although this element was never thought to be used this way, in World War I Chlorine was used as a “choking agent”. Men would suffer

Chlorine is used in pools in either a gaseous or as sodium or calcium hypochlorite. The chlorine is added to water to help prevent people from getting sick from disease-producing microorganisms. The chlorine that is added and reacts with the organic material and metals in the water is the chlorine demand for the water as it will not be available for any disinfection that keeps people from getting sick while in the pool. The residual test is

In conclusion, the chemistry which occurs in a pool is a set of complex reactions which all react with each other to form chemical equilibrium; however, as seen by the Belmont Villas Complex Pool, just because the system is at equilibrium, it does not mean that the system is balanced and healthy. Whilst the Belmont Villas pool was at equilibrium, its levels for pH, alkalinity, free chlorine, combined chlorine, total chlorine, hardness and cyanuric acid were far below acceptable levels, and so many measures (as discussed above) must be undertaken in order to improve its health and make it safe and comfortable to swim in. However, this reaction is also linked to the pH of the system; as OH- is a product of this reaction, this could affect the

Chlorine is a chemical element with symbol Cl and atomic number 17. Chlorine is a pale yellow, green gas under standard conditions. Chlorine atoms have an electron configuration of (2, 8, 7) and 7 outermost shell electrons. Chlorine is in group 17 and period 3 of the periodic table. Chlorine commonly forms the anion Cl- by receiving an electron, reaching a stable electron configuration. Chlorine is a halogen.

Chlorines history was never intended to be used as a weapon. In 1774 German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovered the chemical (Chlorine, 2013). The uses for liquid and solid chlorine was found to kill bacteria and has been developed to be used in small quantities to

One wouldn’t consider regular use of products to be dangerous chemicals. During the summer months, many people are maintaining their pool and don’t even know that there is danger in mixing these hazardous substances such as pool chemicals. It came as a surprise to learn that there is even danger in delivering and receiving these pool chemicals, there was an incident close in the area where I work. “Police say pool chemicals in the back of a pool company truck interacted with one another and caught fire” (News12, 2017). Nevertheless, if this affected the police officers who were near, who suffered from chemical inhalation and the Department of Environmental Conservation was needed to properly clean up. While these chemicals may be safe in

As the leader of this clan, I chose to bring chlorine because I believe the chemical properties will be important as a wound disinfectant and to help purify water. The first important chemical property of chlorine is it’s solution when mixed with water to help kill bacteria in a wound. According to a website called https://www.leaf.tv/articles/the-effects-of-pool-chlorine-on-healing-wounds/ “When chlorine in the water penetrates the skin, it will help kill the bacteria in the wound.” This property is very important on the island for any medical issues that might occur while on the island. Even though, we hope for no medical issues to arise there is always the possibility and we want to ensure that, that has the littlest possible chance of happening,

A good reasons why we decided to use chloramine is because it's cheap and convenient, but it’s not the safest. Chlorine also could cause cancer, birth defects, and heart disease, but chlorine

The way chlorine kills the bacteria is because chlorine splits into different chemicals like HOCI (Hypochlorous acid) and OCI (Hypochlorite ion). HOCI and OCI both dissolve in water. These two chemicals kills bacteria and they do that by attacking the lipids in the cell. HOCI is able to oxidise (loss of electrons) organisms in seconds and OCI is able to oxidise (loss of electrons) organisms in about 30 minutes. This means that chlorine kills bacteria straight away because of the HOCI but then the OCI kills bacteria later for example people who go into the swimming later. Also chlorine does not harm us humans but maybe you get some dry skin or hair. This is really effective because HOCI and OCI in the chlorine kills bacteria which can make

Pool shock contains calcium hypochlorite while common household bleach contains sodium hypochlorite. “Chlorine shock basically involves raising the chlorine to very high levels in order to destroy any contaminants in the water” (“How Often Should I Shock My Pool?”). To explain, the products being utilized in this experiment both contain chlorine. Keeping this in mind, household bleach can possibly be a good alternative for cleaning a contaminated pool, if this experiment shows results in favor. For this experiment then, the independent variable will be the time in hours and depended variable will be the pH of each individual pool being used.