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Removing chlorine from water is somewhat complicated. Chlorinated water is simply water with Cl- ions floating around, and washing would certainly not help. It would depend what kind of water you would want to remove it from. For fishtanks, you could use Sodium Thiosulphate, it complexes and removes Cl- ions from solution. For drinking water, a simple carbon filter (e.g. Brita) should remove ~99% of all Cl- ions. Another method is to aerate and allow the Cl to leave as a gas, but it will take time, similar to how a soda goes flat after the CO2 has left as a gas from solution.

2007-02-02 15:41:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I have no idea what is meant by "washing".

I do not think that any normal use of that term would result in reducing chlorine in water.

If you are talking about regular 'tap' water, I am sorry to say that many, if not most water utilities/cities have moved away from gaseous Cl2 -- the potential for disaster/terror is too great. Instead, a safer why to harness the power of chlorine is to use chloramines.

Even if the water is initially treated with gaseous Cl2, the predominate form is NOT going to form Cl- ions in water. (rookie mistake) The reactivity of Cl2 will preferentially form HOCL in all but low pH.
This is very stable complex and will not outgas signficant amounts of Cl2.

2007-02-02 16:03:28 · answer #2 · answered by DokterScience 2 · 0 0

Chlorine is a gas. Any water (even the swimming pool) will outgas chlorine. So if you're trying to get chlorine out of anything. Just let it sit for 24 hours. It'll go away on it's own.

2007-02-02 15:41:36 · answer #3 · answered by dakirk123 3 · 0 1

Chlorine gas completely hydrolizes in water to hypochlorous acid. This is the chlorine is in drinking water not Cl-.

Cl2 + H2O --> HOCl

The concentration of HOCl in drinking water is about the same as it is in a swimming pool. Without HOCl pathegenic bacteria would flourish, and you would get sick.

No washing doesn't need to remove hypochlorous acid.

2007-02-02 16:00:21 · answer #4 · answered by Redsfan 2 · 0 1

nicely bathing a hermit crab isn't the perfect. it would want to reason rigidity to a hermit crab. So i only ensure the bowl interior the tank is sufficiently enormous for them to bathtub them selves even as ever they pick. yet in case you should bathtub them(together with once you purchase them, then take them domicile, bathtub them to sparkling there shells). Bottled water is sturdy for that and eating. Its been filtered countless cases so as that it does no longer pick to be dechlorinated.

2016-11-24 20:25:12 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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