Swimming cleaners

Sodium bisulfate, NaHSO, is a convenient mild acid and is safe for uses as a household toilet-bowl cleaner, automobile-radiator cleaner, and for swimming pool pH adjustment. It is used for metal pickling, as a dye-reducing agent, for soil disinfecting, and as a promoter in hardening certain types of cement. 

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). 

Sodium hypochlorite is one of the best disinfectants known, capable of killing bacteria, yeasts, fungus, spores, and even viruses. Because it is an excellent disinfectant as well as a bleaching agent, it is used in many household cleaners. Sodium hypochlorite is also used to disinfect water supplies and swimming pools (although calcium hypochlorite in powder or pellet form is often used as a substitute, due to the convenience of its solid form). 

Figure 10 shows the face of the anode. As indicated, there are doubtless some droplets of electrolyte moving in the channels. The fluorine moves these droplets along just like a gas lift pump lifts water in a goldfish bowl cleaner or a swimming pool vacuum. The electrolyte still does not wet the anode very well, but the low-energy situation makes it easier to move electrons from the electrolyte into the carbon base. 

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Rhodaquat [Rhone-Poulenc France] Alkyl dimethyl benzyl anunonium chlorides cationic emulsifier, dispersant, bactericide for institutional sin-fectant cleaners, swimming pod dgi-cides, toiletries, medicated soaps dye... 

Products and Uses Used in hair bleaching products, swimming pool chemicals, toilet cleaner, drain cleaner, as a buffer, a neutralizing agent, and an etching... 

Products and Uses A commonly used bleach, disinfectant, and drain cleaner. Also used for swimming pool disinfectant, laundry bleaches, water purification, and germicide. 

Consequently, sulfuric acid forms both sulfates (S04 salts) and bisulfates (or hydrogen sulfates, HSO4 salts). Bisulfate salts are common components of the dry acid.s used for adjusting the pH of swimming pools and hot tubs they are also components of many toilet bowl cleaners. 

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... 

While these Pseudomonas infections are much more common than those caused by M. marinum, it is unclear whether the infection has the same importance for swimming-pool cleaners. The exposure to the infected water for a pool cleaner may be such that it is improbable that infection could occur. Hands, probably the most exposed site for a pool cleaner, are not infected because of the paucity of hair follicles. It also appears that extended immersion in water is necessary to induce infection. Superhydration of the skin promotes the growth of Pseudomonas [90, 91]. Hydration and occlusion, as would occur with body immersion and bathing-suit wearing, has been demonstrated to increase colony counts of P. aeruginosa [91]. Opinions differ as to whether or not increased duration of exposure increases the risk of infection [84, 92, 93]. Hudson et al. did correlate increased time of contact with the contaminated water with an increased risk of infection. Since the amount of exposure to water for pool cleaners is unquantified, it is possible that the exposure is too incidental to cause infection. 

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