Klarinet Archive - Posting 000651.txt from 1997/07

From: "C Henderson" <chenderson@-----.au>
Subj: Re: Poison ivy rash
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:56:34 -0400

> On Sun, 20 Jul 1997 deerich@-----.net wrote:
>
> > put one cup of chlorine bleach in a full bathtub of water and have =
him
> > bathe in that. He says it worked but it sounds risky to me.

And Nick Yip wrote:
> I work at a pool and I found out that chlorine bleach can burn. One =
cup
> in a pool would not hurt, because it is so big, but one cup in the
> bathtub might be different.

Dee, can we clarify this,please? Am I right in thinking that you are ref=
erring
to liquid bleach, rather than chlorine powder such as is used in pools? =
My
calculations indicate that one cup of bleach in a full bath (c. 200 litre=
s, or
40 gallons) would be roughly equivalent chlorine concentration to that =

achieved by using water purification/sterilisation tablets (though this =
doesn't allow for the chlorine that may be added to your water by the aut=
horities before it gets to you. Either way, it seems to me that the amou=
nt of chlorine you suggest is well within the limits of safety either for=
drinking or for bathing in. Nick, of course, is right in saying that =
chlorine *can* burn - it's strongly caustic in its undiluted state - I =
just think that in this case, it's OK.

Clare Henderson <chenderson@-----.au>