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    So adding chlorine gets rid of the chloramines. What are the products of this reaction?

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    You got me interested so I tested my tap water. Rural water system
    TC 0
    Ph 6.8 or lower since it was a lighter color than the 6.8 reading

    So my tap water is low Ph and has no chlorine? That may be good since my pool Ph is always high (SWG)
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    So adding chlorine gets rid of the chloramines. What are the products of this reaction?
    I tried looking this up. I think chlorine plus chloramine yields chloride plus nitrogen gas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hulla
    I tried looking this up. I think chlorine plus chloramine yields chloride plus nitrogen gas.
    In the simple view, yes....A+ in the chemistry. It's actually a bit more complicated than that but for our puposes it's more than enough. This is what happens (or is supposed to happen) when we shock our pools. Chorine/ammonia bonds are broken to release the ammoia compounds out of the chloramines (CC) and then the ammonia compounds are oxidized (burned off) and release nigrogen gas. The used up chlorine becomes chloride ions in the water.
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