Saturday, April 16, 2011

Uncovering the true colours of the swimming pool

Prof John Yip does it again!

Contrary to popular beliefs, the chlorine smell of swimming pool does not indicate recent cleaning of the pool but instead tons of sweat and urine in the pool. Think twice when u swallow a gulp of the water as it contains the most nutritious compounds that you would never ever try in your life :D

So the smell comes from the chemical product of chlorine disinfectant and ammonia (from sweat, urine, fart shit) to form chloramine

Evidence

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