When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.

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    20 hours ago

    Ok, but why then when you open a bottle of bleach or container of chlorine pellets, does it smell like chlorine. Do they add the piss ahead of time?

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      16 hours ago

      take all but 1.5mL out of that gallon jug of household bleach, then fill it back up with water. that’s roughly the concentration of chlorine in a swimming pool.

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      18 hours ago

      That’s pure chlorine, much higher concentration. At the concentrations of pool chlorination there’s essentially no smell.

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        10 hours ago

        But couldn’t they just be over-coordinating. That’s what it feels like.

        Either way, I’m glad they came up with salt water systems. Much nicer.

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          Fun fact, salt water systems require a gadget called a salt cell which converts some of the salt in the water into chlorine. The salt isn’t actually sanitizing the water, it’s not there in nearly enough concentration to do that. Rather, the salt cell is splitting the sodium chloride into sodium and chlorine, the chlorine is then sanitizing the pool.