• Question: roughly, how much clorine is there in a swimming pool, and how does that compare to the clorine gas, used in the 1st world war??????

    Asked by mullerlight to Probash on 22 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
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      Probash Chowdhury answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      I’m not sure of the exact concentrations in either case (these can probably be googled) but I’m sure in the World Wars, the concentration was hundreds if not thousands of times higher than in a swimming pool.

      The chlorine in pools is designed to kill bacteria, where as in the war it was intended to kill people. Two very different sized organisms and different complexities of body processes. So it stands to reason that it would take loads more to kill a human than a bacteria.

      There is a saying in toxicology that all things are poisonous, only the dose determines whether it is harmful or beneficial.

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