Episode 13: The 10X Lie: Shocking Your Pool Isn't What You Think It Is | The Pools Scientific Podcast

Shock has become the answer to every pool problem, which is the first sign nobody's actually answering the question. There's exactly one chemistry accurate definition of shocking a pool: achieving breakpoint chlorination. Everything else calling itself shock is borrowing a word it was never entitled to. This episode traces the industry's 10X shock rule back to where it actually came from, a mismatch between a ratio built to measure raw ammonia and a test kit reading of chlorine that's already...