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Chemistry 101
Henry_4
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these tidbits of info up for the betterment of mankind....uh, ....hello, .........is anyone here.......OK, HAHA very funny.....you guys can all come back now...
Fine I am just going to hog all of the fun chemistry stuff to myself now :)
Fine I am just going to hog all of the fun chemistry stuff to myself now :)
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when raw chlorine meets copper
In under 10 days the complete copper section of the thermowell and the capillary bulb were eaten away. The HO decided to reduce his swimming pool operating to 4 hrs a day, leaving the fitting dry and exposed to the chlorine feeder (12" away) for the other 20 hours. The new well is brass. Nasty stuff raw chlorine. Dan
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Chlorine
is a column seven element, having a valence shell electron one short of the optimum needed to reach the most stable energy level. The principle utilized is Aufbau which states that everything is searching for its lowest and most stable energy level. Combined with entropy, you have raw chlorine wreaking havock on anything that it touches in order to be stable and disorder (entropy) abounds. However, if there is any moisture present, the chlorine has already "mated" with it ionically and you are getting aggressive hydrochloric acid. For those of you still awa.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz0 -
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not fair
you cant hog all the fun!!!! :-)0 -
Henry
That's enough information to make a guy never want to get a swimming pool again!
From my RSES Course I remember the saying "the solution to pollution is dilution" So, I guess mixed with enough water it'll be safe
Thanks for the Chemistry lesson.
Your friend in the industry,
Alan R. Mercurio
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As \"The Beaver\" would say
"Jeepers Henry, you're smart as anything".
No really, you are. I'm sincerely impressed. And that will not be found in any Chemistry 101 class or the next two above it.
Stever
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My first chlorine experiment
lasted less than 24 hours. Being a 2nd year cub, I was sent out to a community pool to replace a piece of pipe.
All I had on my truck was copper, so I made up what I thought would work OK (Its just pool water, right...) and was called back the next day because my handy work had failed. Seems it was a chlorine bypass feeder line that I was working on, and copper and chlorine do NOT mix...
Live and learn. No one got hurt, except for my pride.
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There are certain
elements that if dealt with are more aggressive than most, they are known as the diatoms and they do not like to stand alone, but will react with themselves to stabilize or anyother element that will give them what they want to stabilize. Hydrogen, Oxygen, Flourine, Bromine, Iodine, Nitrogen, Chlorine. AKA: Dr. HOFBrINCL (Hofbrinkle). When dealing with these, alwasy take extra precautions because they are aggressive and can be dangerous.
Henry0 -
I can dig chemistry ...
and physics too! Great post. Chlorine likes stainless materials too - they last a bit longer - but not much - depends on dilution.0
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