Quote Originally Posted by CarlD
Finally there's a lithium chlorine powder. It costs a fortune, has very little active chlorine and may have unexpected effects--I don't know what concentrations of lithium do in water.

Bottom line: Most of us use laundry bleach to chlorinate. I do.
Lithium ions in the water act pretty much the same way sodium ions do....not much effect at all. That is the main plus (along with it's almost instantaneous dissolving) to lithium hypochlorite. The expen$e is the bigge$t minu$.