Discovering Vitamin C

[urbanfarmer]

If you actually have free chlorine in the water, letting it stand for a few days while bubbling air through it will clean it out. It is removed easily and cheaply by sodium metabisulfite. Free chlorine is being phased out in the USA in favor of chloramines. This is done without any fanfare or public announcement. A product that removes chlorine will not always remove chloramine.

I have used C to remove chlorine from pool water that is chlorinated with chlorine tablets, and my tap water since going to chloramine.

By all means test to see if it works for you. I have yet to find anyone who has tried it and not have it work.

Hm, interesting, I heard it was the other way around because you're right chloramines are bad!

Chlorine tablets for pools contain chlorine in the form of Trichloro-S-Triazinetrione, which is C3Cl3N3O3, which is not a monohalogenated species of chlorine; therefore, ascorbic acid would likely work according to the conclusions of the EPA document cited above, and as you have confirmed through observation it does in fact work!

And yes, chlorine does off gas unless it is tightly bound, which is definitely cheaper.

[badflash]

[Hm, interesting, I heard it was the other way around because you're right chloramines are bad!

Chloramines are more stable and safer to use than chlorine. It also lasts much longer in the pipes. They also add sodium hydroxide to keep the pH basic. Town water is a witches brew of chemicals.

[urbanfarmer]

[Hm, interesting, I heard it was the other way around because you're right chloramines are bad!

Chloramines are more stable and safer to use than chlorine. It also lasts much longer in the pipes. They also add sodium hydroxide to keep the pH basic. Town water is a witches brew of chemicals.

Yes, a witches brew and our stomachs are the cauldron!

It was my understanding chloramines are more dangerous to humans BECAUSE they are more stable. Chlorines neutralize very quickly in organic systems. It's not good to "sterilize" our intestinal tract, especially since we rely so heavily on a range of bacteria to aid our digestive process... that's why they sell yogurt with bacteria to help people poop, because they're insides are messed up!

Oh well, time will tell. And I'm sure history will remember us all as idiots! But wait, the Romans made all their eating and cooking utensils out of lead and died quite often from lead poisoning... and we don't think ill of the Romans do we? Hm...

[Shas]

...his discovery is no less meaningful today.

Indeed.
Linus Pauling used Vitamin C to cure cancer back in the 1970s.
He was immediately vilified as a quack,
yet he is the ONLY man to be awarded TWO Nobel prizes!

BTW, cheap Vitamin C tablets from the grocery store
contain a mixture of ascorbic acid and citric acid.
They both bind to our Vit C receptor sites,
but the citric acid cannot be metabolised
and prevents the uptake of ascorbic acid.
The net result is that your body receives LESS Vit C
when taking these tablets!

[bsfman]

Linus Pauling used Vitamin C to cure cancer back in the 1970s.
He was immediately vilified as a quack,
yet he is the ONLY man to be awarded TWO Nobel prizes!

BTW, cheap Vitamin C tablets from the grocery store
contain a mixture of ascorbic acid and citric acid.
They both bind to our Vit C receptor sites,
but the citric acid cannot be metabolised
and prevents the uptake of ascorbic acid.
The net result is that your body receives LESS Vit C
when taking these tablets!

Wonder where ole' Linus scored his vitamin C tabs?