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Testing for chlorine in food processing
Chlorine is a strong sanitizer. It’s used in the food industry to kill bacteria, yeasts, moulds, spores and viruses. Here’s how it works:
When you add a chlorine compound to water you end up with two forms of ‘free chlorine’, both of which are sanitizers. But …
Cyanuric acid is used in pools to ‘stabilize’ chlorine. It does this by acting as a shield against sunlight, which destroys free chlorine. And it does this very effectively. In water with 25 ppm of cyanuric acid, free chlorine can last up to five times longer than it would in …
MPS (or potassium monopersulphate) is the active ingredient in most non-chlorine shocking agents, which are used in pools and spas to get rid of organic matter from the water. MPS has many advantages over chlorine: it doesn’t produce chloramines which give off unpleasant odours; it doesn’t bleach pool surfaces; it …
We may think spa water needs to be treated like pool water, but this is not true. Spa water is much hotter, and the extra heat makes a difference.
For one thing, bacteria like hot water. Typical bathers shed around a billion bacteria on entering a
spa, and if the spa water …
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are in a golf shootout. They each fire a shot into a green from 100 m to see who will start first. Rory’s ball lands 50 cm from the flag, and Tiger’s lands 120 cm away. Tiger therefore starts the shootout.
Both players each hit 50 …
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