Archive For The “Chlorine” Category
Today’s inquiry came to us from ‘Kishore’ who asked a question about a liquid test reagent that turned yellow when added to a sample of water containing chlorine-based water disinfection tablets. Dear Sir, I mixed chlorine tablets(water purification Tablets) in water. my friend taken water in Test tube. mixed one drop of liquid then water [...]
Every so often we receive questions from readers who ask something along the lines of, “What do most people ask about?” Seemed odd at first (several years ago), but after getting asked the same thing so many times we eventually came to the conclusion that a good number of people really and truly don’t know [...]
Before you WASTE money buying that expensive gift basket of bath scents and bath oils for your mother, sister, aunt, or uncle Wanda… we want you to consider the possibility that free chlorine and/or chloramines may ruin all those beautiful scents you will choose. Fact: As an oxidizer, chlorine in any of its forms will [...]
It sickens us to read about valuable resources such as water testing kits sitting idle on shelves so long that their components age beyond expiration dates… especially when it happens in an economically depressed or otherwise challenged area such as rural India. Forget about the wasted money. Think, instead, about the waterborne illnesses that water [...]
Rude family members contribute to a lack of cold, clean drinking water? Apparently so because ‘Kaytee’ has more than a few issues with her greedy, insensitive, water guzzling family. “My husband and kids have no manners. We live in a place where temperatures hit the high 90′s for a good part of the year and [...]
Most people looking to test their drinking water for chlorine want to know the concentration of free chlorine, also called the free chlorine residual, in their drinking water. Basically speaking, free chlorine (hypochlorous acid) acts as an effective sanitizing and disinfecting agent in lower concentrations but can cause serious harm and damage to organic material [...]
We get questions about chlorine all the time. Usually people want to know if their water has any chlorine in it, how much chlorine it contains, how they can reduce the chlorine in their water, why their water has chlorine in it, and if the chlorine in their water poses a health risk. Today’s ‘question’ [...]
We always talk about the benefits of undersink filters, countertop filters and whole house filters because of their tendency to filter out large numbers of unwanted drinking water contaminants very efficiently… and today we’d like to bring to your attention a PUR Water Pitcher Filter that comes with a really nice feature: the NSF Certified [...]