Options Expand for Chlorine-Free Swimming Pools
Treating pools with chlorine or bromine can have negative side effects, not the least of which is relying on toxic chemicals. Swimmers have long been plagued with higher than average rates of lung cancer from breathing chlorine byproducts, and many ...
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The Daily Green
Chlorine leak forces 300-villager evacuation
HANGZHOU, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Homes of more then 300 villagers in east China's Zhejiang province were evacuated on Wednesday as a road accident involving a vehicle carrying liquid chlorine caused a spill of the dangerous material, according to an ...
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Xinhua News Agency
Chlorine-Free, Universal Coolant extends metalworking tool life.
November 4, 2009 - As mineral oil-based micro-emulsion, Blasocut® BC935 promotes extended tool life and optimal surface finish in machining and grinding of cast iron, steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and high-temperature alloys. Water-soluble solution ...
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ThomasNet Industrial News Room
U.S. Chlorine Plants in January Run at Highest Rate Since August
The average operating rate of U.S. plants that make chlorine and caustic soda rose to 85 percent in January, the highest output level in five months, a trade group said. The industry’s average operating rate for plants that make the chemicals ...
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Bloomberg
Tourists rushed to hospital after hotel pool chlorine leak
More than 30 people were rushed to hospital after a chlorine leak in the Phuket Orchid Resort's swimming pool. Photo: AFP More than 30 people, many of them foreign tourists, were rushed to hospital Saturday on the Thai resort island of Phuket after a ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Chlorine gas sends dozens to Monterey County hospitals
More than 200 guests were evacuated from the Portola Plaza Hotel in downtown Monterey on Monday morning and about 30 people were taken to area hospitals after the mixing of cleaning chemicals spilled and released a type of chlorine gas ...
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The Californian
Photometer measures free chlorine and chlorine dioxide.
July 6, 2011 - Supporting FCL400 Free Chlorine Sensor and CLD400 Chlorine Dioxide Sensor, FCLA 7000 eXact Photometer utilizes 525 nm LED light source to measure free chlorine from 0-11 ppm or chlorine dioxide at 0-6.5 ppm with photometric precision of ±0 ...
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Iowa American Water adjust its treatment process
Company will temporarily switch to "free chlorine" treatment during annual water main and hydrant flushing program. DAVENPORT, IA (February 17, 2012) Iowa American Water will adjust its treatment process for the next four weeks as part of its ...
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Quad Cities Onlines
Urban Youth Make a Splash in D.C.
As a lifelong swimmer, when I get a whiff of chlorine, I get excited. But when I saw hundreds of kids swimming in every lane at D.C.'s Takoma Aquatic Center on President's Day weekend, I was thrilled. The joint was jumping. Lane after lane was full of ...
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Huffington Post
Public Health to halt bulk chlorine sale on health threats
Santo Domingo.- The Public Health Ministry Monday announced it will halt the illegal sale of chlorine in bulk in the capital and the interior and will not allow endangering the livers of poor citizens. “In this case if they are companies ...
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Domican Today
