Liquid pool chlorine has a strength of 10-12% available chlorine. So in 10 litres of liquid chlorine some 88-90% is water.
Answer: It is true that pool chlorine is stronger than bleach. For bleach and water to be the same strength as pool chlorine and water, you would have to adjust the ratio, increasing the bleach and reducing the water. But no matter which chlorine you use, make sure to test a small area before doing the job.
Sodium Hypochlorite is a liquid Chlorine and has around 10-12% available Chlorine. Available Chlorine (AC) is the amount of Chlorine released in the water to disinfect. Bleach, which contains Sodium Hypo, only has 5% AC which is why bleach is not a good pool disinfectant.
The percentage of available chlorine is quite low for pool bleach, 12.5% is standard. Household bleach, by contrast is typically a more diluted 5 or 6% solution of the same sodium hypochlorite solution.
If chlorine is used, the free residual chlorine concentration in your pool should be maintained at 1.0 to 3.0 mg/L. The ideal level is 2 mg/L. When a pool is not in use, a method such as a floating immersion dispenser should be used to disinfect the pool water at all times.
Pool chlorine and household bleach both contain hypochlorite ion, which is the chemical agent responsible for their “bleaching” action. Pool chlorine, however, is substantially stronger than household bleach.
Product Description. The 1 Gal HASA 4×1 Liquid Chlorine is the purest, strongest, and fastest working liquid chlorine available. Up to 25% stronger than other leading brands. HASA liquid chlorine is a sodium hypochlorite solution, marketed for use in the treatment of water in swimming pools, spas, and hot tubs.
Dichlor is perhaps the most “best of all worlds” chlorine sanitizer. It is typically found in concentrations of 60-65%, which is comparable to cal-hypo. It is a powder sanitizer, which makes it easier to spread or broadcast around the pool than chlorine tablets.
The strongest bleach is Clorox Regular Bleach2, which is the best bleach for cleaning, stain removal, and whitening. It's the only bleach that can be used around the house to clean and purify a wide variety of surfaces.
It is important to know what exactly bleach is before you put it in your pool. Household bleach, Clorox and liquid chlorine can all be used to sanitize a pool. They are all types of chlorine. Household bleaches such as Clorox usually contain about 5-6% available chlorine, about half that of pool liquid chlorine.
They are identical in every way, with the exception of strength. Household bleach is usually a 6% concentration (although some of the cheaper stuff is 3%), while pool chlorine can typically be found in strength between 10% and 12%. All of this is sodium hypochlorite, and works the same in sanitizing your water.
Pool-grade chlorine and a jug of Clorox are essentially the same thing, chemically. However, they're not made with the same concentrations of chlorine. Pool-grade chlorine, which you can usually buy in tablets, granules, or as a liquid, tends to be available in formulations of between 65% and nearly 100% chlorine.
Excess chlorine can alter the pH level of the water in the pool, making it more acidic. The acid levels can cause any of the following symptoms: Irritant dermatitis which is a red skin rash characterized by raised itchy red bumps. Eye irritation and over-dilated blood vessels in the eyes.
As mentioned above, you could probably swim in a pool without chlorine without any major health issues. However, long-term use of a pool lacking chlorinated H2O could make you sick or, at the very least, contribute to rashes and other types of skin irritation.
Updated February 22, 2022. Chlorine bleach is formed by mixing water with the chlorine-based compound sodium hypochlorite. This widely available product is commonly used as either a whitening and disinfecting agent in laundry or an all-purpose disinfectant with broad applications.
Well-known member. I think all the tablets are Trichlor so to partially respond I would say yes you can break them up. With that said be careful, I know that stuff isn't the nicest thing to handle/work with, in fact just buying a 3in tablet dispenser might be a safer/nicer approach.
Shock is chlorine, in a high dose, meant to shock your pool and raise the chlorine level quickly. Chlorine tabs (placed in a chlorinator, floater, or skimmer basket) maintain a chlorine residual in the water. You do need to use both tabs and shock.
You can use half tablets too, score them with a screwdriver, and break it in half with your hands, underwater in the skimmer basket.
2 ppm of Chlorine will take up to 4 and a half days or around 110 hours to evaporate from 10 gallons of standing water. Ultraviolet light, water circulation, and aeration will speed up the evaporation process dramatically. Chlorine will last between 6 and 8 minutes in 10 gallons of boiling tap water.
Liquid chlorine may be a good choice if you have a large pool, but the costs associated with it, and the available chlorine per pound could mean that chlorine granules are the better option. In the end, both liquid chlorine and chlorine granules will do their job and keep your pool clean and clear.
Liquid chlorine is preferred over chlorine tablets by pool professionals however home swimming pools will benefit too. Liquid chlorine quickly raises or maintains chlorine levels without raising stabilizer. Chlorine tablets maintain chlorine levels and add stabilizer to the pool water.
The recommended concentration for disinfection has been 600-800 ppm of chlorine bleach and 50 to 200 parts per million (ppm) for sanitizing.
The chlorine in bleaching powder breaks down into many different chemicals in water such as hypochlorous acid and hypochlorite ion and kill microorganisms and bacteria which helps to keep swimming pool clean.
Liquid chlorine, or bleach, is made of a 12.5 percent sodium hypochlorite solution. It can be added at a rate of 2 gallons per 10,000 gallons for the purpose of shocking the pool. It burns clean without residue or dust.