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How much pee is in your pool, what you need to know. (Original Post)
multigraincracker
Mar 2021
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forgotmylogin
(7,944 posts)1. How did I know this would be Mark Rober? LOL! n/t
intrepidity
(8,575 posts)2. Spoiler alert!
I did not know this! The typical swimming pool smell that we all associete with clean pool water is NOT the chlorine itself, but the byproduct trichloramine, which is the result of a reaction between chlorine and UREA, as from pee and sweat!
How did I not know this?
multigraincracker
(37,179 posts)3. That's why science is important.
Amazing, even with the 4 times as much chlorine, there is zero smell. Only if there is pee, is there smell.
It is a long one to watch.
MFM008
(20,042 posts)4. there is absolutely no pee
in our pool............we dont have one....................
