Daniella Cowden
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Physical Science Department
Research Task
Green Swimming Pool Investigation
Problem Statement:
The Olympics pool in Rio turned green overnight and needs to be rectified. What went wrong also needs to be determined through the chemistry involved in maintaining a pool.
Normal Pool Chemistry:
The water in pools has to be disinfected to make it safe for swimming. But the disinfectants added to pools aren’t just killing harmful microbes. They’re also reacting with organic matter in the water to form unwanted disinfection by-products. Most of the precursors to those by-products are brought into the water by swimmers themselves.
The most common compounds used to disinfect swimming pools are forms of chlorine. Other disinfectants include bromine, ozone, and ultraviolet radiation. They all
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High levels can cause PH to rise. Total alkalinity indicates the water's ability to buffer PH changes. Buffering means you need to use a larger quantity of a chemical to change the pH. At low Total Alkalinity levels, the pH tends to swing around drastically. At high Total Alkalinity levels, the pH tends to drift up.
Calcium Hardness - Appropriate levels help prevent plaster damage. High levels can cause calcium scaling. Calcium hardness indicates the amount of calcium in the water. Over time, water with low calcium levels will tend to dissolve calcium out of plaster, pebble, tile, stone, concrete, and to some extent fiberglass surfaces.
Cyanuric Acid - Protects chlorine from sunlight and determines the required Free Chlorine level. Cyanuric acid, often called stabilizer or conditioner, both protects Free Chlorine from sunlight and lowers its effective strength. The higher the Cyanuric Acid level, the more Free Chlorine you need to use to get the same effect. It is important to know your Cyanuric Acid level so you can figure out what Free Chlorine level to aim for.
Disinfection
In the pH homeostasis lab, 6 experiments were conducted. The hypotheses were: If base is added to water then the pH will increase; If acid is added to water then the pH will decrease; If base is added to homogenate, then the pH will increase; If acid is added to homogenate, then the pH will decrease; If acid or base is added to buffer, then the pH will remain the same. After the experiments were conducted, the graphs were somewhat similar to the hypotheses.
In this paper I will argue that, whether or not we have a moral duty to rescue in the “shallow pond” case, we have a moral duty to donate our money, when it is of no morally significant cost to us to do so, to save the lives of faraway strangers in need. I will explain all these cases in brief in the coming paragraphs and discuss what my opinion is.
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Like all objects, clocks inevitably get dust and dirt on them. The type of cleaning solution used to clean clocks depends on the material the clock is made out of. Usually, liquid cleaning solutions are used because they are cheap, easy to store, and are easier to get into a clock's many nooks and crannies. Hydrocarbon A high-purity-hydrocarbon cleaner is a rinsing agent used after the clock and its internal parts have been cleaned. Hydrocarbons are organic compounds made out of hydrogen and carbon. The solution spreads as an even film and is designed to leave a stain-free surface. Hydrocarbon solutions are safe to use on materials that are sensitive to solvents that contain chlorine. Clock Cleaning Concentrate Solution When clocks are
It affects the sports club because it has a swimming pool, so the chlorine levels in the water are controlled well so that nobody can be harmed that is why the statutory law is there.
strong acid or base does not necessarily yield a drastic jump in pH. The acid
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