Re: The water in the pool smells not because of chlorine, but because of... urine - a former NASA engineer found out why pools have such a pungent smell

 > MummyChunk wrote:
 > The water in the pool smells not because of chlorine, but because
of... urine - a former NASA engineer found out why pools have such a
pungent smell
 >  > Mark Robert conducted an experiment: he took two buckets of water
with chlorine, left one �clean�, and added a little urine to the
other, closed the lid and left it for a day.
 >  > A day later he checked the buckets: the bucket that contained only
water and chlorine did not smell of anything. But the bucket to which
a little urine was added smelled of that same "nostalgic"
pungent smell of swimming pools.
 >  > This is explained by the fact that when chlorinated water and urine
come into contact, trichloramine is formed, which is the cause of the
pungent odor.
 >  > I won't set foot in a swimming pool again.
Penny Pumpkin
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