Chlorine, swimming pool cleaners

A 5—6% sodium hypochlorite solution is sold for household purposes, of which the largest use is in laundry. Solutions of 10—15% NaOCl are sold for swimming pool disinfection, institutional laundries, and industrial purposes. Solutions of various strengths are used in household and industrial and institutional (I I) cleaners, disinfectants, and mildewcides. A small amount is used in textile mills. Sodium hypochlorite is also made on site with 30—40 g/L available chlorine for pulp bleaching, but its use is decreasing in order to reduce chloroform emissions (see Chlorine oxygen acids and salts). 

Precaution Oxidizer corrosive material may ignite organic materials Hazardous Decomp. Prods. Heated to decomp., emits very toxic fumes of Li20 and Cr Uses Laundry bleach swimming pool disinfection and chlorination water treatment hard surf, cleaners as sanitizing solution for food contact... 

Uses Stabilizer for chlorine in swimming pool water to prepare chlorinated isocyanurates for use as disinfectants, bleaches, sanitizers, and cleaners... 

Household chlorine bleach is a dilute solution of sodium chlorate(i) (sodium hypochlorite). It is prepared by absorbing chlorine gas into cold sodium hydroxide solution. More concentrated solutions are used to disinfect drinking water and swimming pools. Bleach should never be mixed with other household cleaners. With bleach, acid-based cleaners produce chlorine and ammonia-based products produce toxic chloramines, for example NH2CI. 

Swimming pool chlorinator, hard surface cleaner, mildecide. Water treatment chemical. Biocides, bleach solutions and bleach fixer solutions None known. 

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