Combined Chlorine 101: What are chloramines?
00:00 - Intro
00:59 - This will be complex chemistry, but very simplified.
02:07 - What is combined chlorine? What does chlorine "combine with"?
05:32 - Combined chlorine is an indicator of your chlorine falling behind, and the byproducts are the cause of bather discomfort, irritation and sickness.
06:00 - The pool industry uses the term "chloramines" generally to describe all of these combined chlorine byproducts.
12:06 - Chloramines, far more than pH, are behind bather discomfort, eye and throat irritation, etc.
16:12 - Even if you have a bromine pool, similar chemistry occurs (bromamines)…
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