Hi Marshall,

I think you are forgetting about the solubility of silver chloride.
At 1 ppm Cl about 0.7 ppm of the silver will remain dissolved,
halve the amount of chlorine and double the amount of silver will
remain dissolved.

Ivan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshall Dudley [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2002 4:07 p.m.
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CS>CC & CS for swimming pools
>
>
> Normally the amount of chlorine is on the order of 1 ppm.
> One ppm of chlorine
> will react with about 3 ppm of silver (by weight).  A pool
> containing 20,000
> gallons of water with 1 ppm of chlorine would have sufficient
> chlorine to react
> with half a pound of silver making about 2/3 pound of silver
> chloride.  I would
> hardly call that insignificant.
>
> Marshall
>
> MARIANO DELISE wrote:
>
> > It needs a very SMALL amount of chlorine to burn off all
> the dead critters
> > killed by the silver.  Not enough to make much silver chloride
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:18 AM
> > Subject: CS>CC & CS for swimming pools
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've been looking at some ionizers for swimming pools.
> The majority of
> > > sites say that some chlorine is still needed weekly.  It
> would seem to me
> > > that the chlorine and silver would make some silver
> chloride.  Please
> > > correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that silver chloide was
> > > poisonous/toxic?
> > >
> > > Does anyone currently use an ionizer in your pool/spa,
> and how satisfied
> > > with it are you?  I seem to recall the original thread
> was posed by
> > > Marshall.
> > >
> > > Leacy
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