| Comment | I Googled it thinking you were talking some urban myth nonsense, but you are actually very nearly right. "Pool smell" doesn't apparently come from chlorine, rather the smell we all call chlorine is a compound formed when chlorine levels get diluted by piss and sweat.
> Pool smell is due, not to chlorine, but to chloramines, chemical compounds that build up in pool water when it is improperly treated... Chloramines result from the combination of two ingredients: (a) chlorine disinfectants and (b) perspiration, oils and urine that enter pools on the bodies of swimmers... Swimmers with reddened, irritated eyes have been known to complain that "there is too much chlorine in the pool". In fact, however, when pool water is irritating, there is not enough chlorine in swimming pool water! You may be surprised to learn that there is no odor to a well-managed pool. Chloramines, which produce pool smell, can be eliminated using chlorine.
https://chlorine.americanchemistry.com/Science-Center/Chlorine-Compound-of-the-Month-Library/Chloramines-Understanding-Pool-Smell/ |
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