Bleach vs. pool chlorine?

[outdoor]

Let me try to put this a different way. Chlorine is the chemical that does the sanitizing and oxidizing in a chlorinated pool, at room temperature chlorine is a gas, and a fairly nasty one at that at higher conecntrations. Therefore to get chlorine into the pool water without dangerous high pressure tanks and hazmat endorsements it needs to be bound to something this may be (bleach / liquid chlorine / sodium hypochlorite all 3 are different names for the same thing), dichlor, trichlor or lithium hypochlorite, all four of these break down in water to release the chlorine (well technically it combines with the water to become Hypochlorous acid HOCL but so does Chlorine gas when you bubble it through water) as well as something else.

With bleach you get Chlorine + Sodium in the form of Sodium Chloride (common table salt)

With dichlor and trichlor you effectively get Chlorine + CYA (also with trichlor in particular you get a acidic pH reduction)

With Lithium Chloride you get Chlorine + Lithium

If you look at "salt water pools" with an SWG you still put chlorine into the pool, just in this case the form is Sodium Chloride, common table salt, which does not separate under normal conditions in pool water. Instead it is broken down into Chlorine + Sodium when it passes through the SWC cell, as electricity is passed through the salt water between the SWG plates the water + salt form Sodium and Chlorine , then the Chlorine plus the water turns into Hypochlorous acid (HOCL) and Hydrogen gas which bubbles out.

So what does the LIthium Add or do to the water?

 

[jblizzle]

It adds Lithium

I do not think that has as large of a consequence as the CH or CYA from the other solid forms of chlorine

 

[Bigdog43]

Feel like I'm studying to become a chemist learning all this pool stuff. Put me in the camp that didn't know bleach and chlorine were the same thing....kinda just blew my mind.

 

[jblizzle]

bleach and "chlorine" are not the same thing ... go back and read the thread

bleach and "liquid chlorine" or "liquid pool shock" are the same chemical at different strengths.

 

[Bigdog43]

Touche'

Meant to say that bleach and the "chlorine that I put in my pool" are the same thing