Nature 2?

[sasha]

Why does ozone work against chlorine? I'm not sure I follow the logic, or the chemistry behind what you're saying.

As for Nature2, there seems to be a lot of people who are happy with the product. I think as long as that's the case I guess, it's a good product, at least to them.

sasha

[waterbear]

Why does ozone work against chlorine? I'm not sure I follow the logic, or the chemistry behind what you're saying.

As for Nature2, there seems to be a lot of people who are happy with the product. I think as long as that's the case I guess, it's a good product, at least to them.

sasha

The chemistry is a bit involved but they oxidize each other in a "fight to the death". If you dont believe me how about this info from the FAQ at OzoneLab instruments for starters

http://www.ozoneservices.com/faq/faq015.htm

The FAQ has quite a few intersting titbits about ozone and hydrogen peroxide in swimming pools and spas...bottom line is they no longer recommend ozone for pools and spas beecause of the problems in it's proper usuage and dosing!

As far as N2 goes, The people that are happy with their N2 most likely don't know that it is merely an erosion feeder for copper sulfate and silver nitrate and think they have a 'low chemical pool' because of the marketing hype. They are told that the pool is being sanitized naturally by "minerals". I guess you could call copper and silver minerals since they are mined from the ground (technically, their ores would be minerals!) but I don't think the copper sulfate and silver nitrate in a N2 cartridge are! Minerals is such a catchword in the industry. I had one product company Technical Rep tell me their metal remover product based on EDTA (a chlelating agent and the titrant for calcium hardness testing) would have no effect on calcium in a pool because calcium is not a metal, it's a mineral!. Last time I looked at a periodic table of the elements calcium was still a metal (in the same family as magnesium and strontium)!

[sasha]

Yeah, I guess I see your point about the hype of the word "minerals". And you're probably right about Nature2 being an erosion feeder, but I think it says on the label that it contains metallic silver, not silver nitrate.

sasha