Re: Chlorine in tap water


Eduardo Benavidez (benavi@impsat1.com.ar)
Sat, 05 Jun 1999 13:22:00 -0300


Liam Lawless escribió:

> Hi,
>
> Water from the tap has a lot of chlorine in it at the moment, so much that
> it smells of bleach, and chrysotype developers made from it do not work
> well. Distilled gets round the problem, but tap water's fine when the
> chlorine is lower. Since distilled is expensive, it would be helpful to
> know when tap water is safe to use for chrysotype, so does anyone know of a
> way of measuring or estimating its chlorine content?
>
> TIA,
>
> Liam

Boiling the water for about 3 minutes is all you need to get out the chlorine
-as some other bad things- from the tap water. At such a high temp the chlorine
vaporizes.

Eduardo Benavidez



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