Episode 12:Combined Chlorine and Chloramines: Why Your Pool Smells Like Chlorine When You Actually Need More of It | The Pools Scientific Podcast

If your pool smells like chlorine and your eyes are stinging, you've probably heard the same explanation everybody hears: too much chlorine. That answer is backwards. In this episode, John Cooper breaks down what's actually happening in that water. Free chlorine reacts with the nitrogen everyone brings into a pool (sweat, saliva, sunscreen, and yes, urine) to form chloramines. There are three of them, monochloramine, dichloramine, and trichloramine (also called nitrogen trichloride), an...