I had just painted the pool, filled it, and was starting to add chemicals. I wasn’t enthusiastic about dropping 5 gallons of boric acid onto my nice new paint, so instead, I drilled some holes in the top of the bucket, shoved the hose in, and kicked it over into the pool like a depth charge. It worked great, I could see the cloud of boric acid coming out of the holes and absorbing into the water before being sucked into the main drain.
That worked so well, I thought I would do the same thing with the 8 lbs of cyanuric acid, that stuff takes forever to absorb, so I put it into the same bucket. The bucket was mostly empty so I thought I’d add the initial shock – about 8 lbs of calcium hypochlorite. I stuck the hose in, went and turned it on, filled the bucket with water, then I got distracted with something else. After about 5 minutes, I heard what sounded like a firecracker. The lid blew of my 5 gallon bucket “chemical diffuser” and then 3 or 4 minutes of “pop, pop, pop” like fireworks from the bucket.
What happened?
(CNOH)₃ + Ca(OCl)2 + H20 = ?
That worked so well, I thought I would do the same thing with the 8 lbs of cyanuric acid, that stuff takes forever to absorb, so I put it into the same bucket. The bucket was mostly empty so I thought I’d add the initial shock – about 8 lbs of calcium hypochlorite. I stuck the hose in, went and turned it on, filled the bucket with water, then I got distracted with something else. After about 5 minutes, I heard what sounded like a firecracker. The lid blew of my 5 gallon bucket “chemical diffuser” and then 3 or 4 minutes of “pop, pop, pop” like fireworks from the bucket.
What happened?
(CNOH)₃ + Ca(OCl)2 + H20 = ?
