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Ok, chlorine is 12% sodium hypochlorite, right?....

I went to my local pool store, pretty large supplier, and looked at 20 different kinds of chlorine and none of them had the words sodium hypochlorite anywhere in their composition.

What am I missing here?

Thanks

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Welcome aboard, please go to "my controls" and complete your signature.

Is Univar in Baton Rouge? If so you can get your 12% from them.

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Ok, chlorine is 12% sodium hypochlorite, right?....

I went to my local pool store, pretty large supplier, and looked at 20 different kinds of chlorine and none of them had the words sodium hypochlorite anywhere in their composition.

What am I missing here?

Thanks

You were most likely finding Calcium hypochlorite. Sodium Hypochlorite is what you will find in liquid bleach. 12% bleach people refer to is Sodium instead of Calcium although either works from what I have heard but most prefer the Sodium version.

Rod!~

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Don't "mess" with the calcium stuff. Doesn't mix completely and leaves a white film on anything it dries on. Doesn't kill as good neither.

Jeff

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