| A chlorine tablet will go a long way to ensure that | | | | level. The maintenance task is made easy by the |
| your pool is clean, has the right chemistry balance | | | | slow dissolving tablets. For added convenience, the |
| and is therefore safe for you and your family to | | | | user does not have to mix chlorine. The tablet is |
| swim. All of this hinges around the chemical balance | | | | simply added to the water as and when it is required. |
| of the pool being maintained. With minimum effort | | | | There are calculators available both in the pool shop |
| and a little discipline, your pool can be sparkling all | | | | and online to calculate how big your pool is. Measure |
| year round and safe to swim. | | | | the length of your pool with a yardstick, the size of |
| Chlorine dioxide tablets are highly effective in | | | | the pool is very important when determining how |
| sanitizing and controlling microbiological activity. When | | | | much chlorine should be used in your swimming pool. |
| these tablets are added to water, they sustain the | | | | Naturally, the depth of the pool is equally important. |
| release of CIO2 gas. The dry tablets are ineffective. | | | | Stabilized chlorine tablets contain added cyuranic acid. |
| To activate the product, the tablet has to be | | | | This is helpful in keeping the pH level of your pool |
| removed from the packaging and dropped into | | | | stable. The tablet should be inserted into a tablet |
| water. Within minutes the solution will get to work - | | | | dispenser to prevent the corrosion of heating |
| removing odors, oxidizing pollutants and controlling | | | | elements or your pools skimmer. |
| microbes such as Legionella bacteria and bio film. | | | | The amount and frequency of tablets to be used in |
| Other applications for chlorine tablets include water | | | | the pool are dependent on the size of the pool and |
| treatment in industrial processes such as water | | | | how strong the chlorine tablet is. Directions should be |
| storage tanks, cooling towers and cooling systems.; | | | | followed to the letter and these will be on the |
| Sanitation of food processing plants; veterinary and | | | | package. |
| health care facilities; the re-circulation of cooling water | | | | Invest in a pool testing kit. The kit will indicate various |
| systems and a variety of other applications. It is used | | | | levels of chemical balances in your pool and that will |
| in many industrial cleaners as well as household | | | | help you to select the treatment procedure to |
| cleaners in a very diluted form. Chlorine tablets can | | | | follow, if necessary. Taking readings frequently will |
| also be used for instant purification of emergency | | | | help you adjust your treatment and maintenance |
| drinking water. | | | | routine before there is an adverse reaction. Chlorine |
| However, the most common use for chlorine tablets | | | | readings should be at 1-3 parts per million. If this level |
| is in swimming pools. Chlorine tablets prevent the | | | | is incorrect, you will know whether to add a chlorine |
| growth of algae, kill bacteria and maintain a good pH | | | | tablet. |