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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Hot tub chemical stores always tell you to use bromine instead of chlorine. They claim chlorine will destroy your tub. I have been using chlorine for 20+ years on 3 different tubs. Never had a problem. I suspect they recommend bromine only because it’s more expensive.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bromine has a higher boiling point than chlorine, which allows it to stay in the hot water longer. You can use chlorine in a hot tub, but you have to add it more frequently to achieve the proper level of sanitization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, but I’ve never had an issue with satiation using chlorine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And you won’t, if you add it more frequently.

It’s a matter of long-term economic effect. Both work, but one is cheaper in the long-term because bromide sanitizers for longer at higher temperatures, such as those which exist in hot tubs. That’s the point they were making.

Chlorine also works fine, but because of the higher temperatures, you have to use more, which cost more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But that smell hits different. It's what they use on Pirates of the Caribbean at Disney and partly why it smells the way it does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I realize I’m weird, but I love that smell

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think bromine destroys your clothes less doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe? I haven’t noticed it. I use the same bathing suit each time and it doesn’t appear to be faded.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think chlorine really destroys the elastics