Bromine is what a lot of theme parks use in their water rides. It’s that “sweeter” smell to chlorine. I use bromine in the water fountain at my front door but chlorine in my pool because bromine is more expensive

Bromine is typically used more in spas because it is more stable than chlorine at higher water temps

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You put "taste" in quotation marks like there's another word for what you feel when that nasty ass public pool piss water is in your mouth

Why are we tasting pool water?

I use bromine in my hot tub

And less destructive! Chlorine eats up the seals and gaskets (usually from people putting too much and/or using powder).

Also bromine tends to smell less like chemicals (again, if used properly) compared to chlorine.

Exactly

Is that the stuff from my Gatorade?

It's a pool, it happens

Bromine pools smell a lot better, but I don't know I'd think that if all pools were bromine pools.

Question for users: does bromine use help alleviate skin rash (some experience with chlorine) in your own experience?

Bromine smells like Pirates of the Caribbean.

You are telling Chlorine (Cl) have a saltier taste ??? (NaCl) hmmm

I think the Navy uses bromide cartridges in their water purification too. IDK how they end up getting jet fuel in the water sometimes tho.

As a kid, our pool was a bromine pool.

As an adult I learned that bromine exposure is horrendous for the thyroid … which might explain why mine was full of tumors

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Based on my limited knowledge of chemicals (I mostly did equipment repairs, but still had to know my way around the chemicals), as well as knowledge attained from talking with customers, I believe that one of the big selling points of bromine is that it is much less harsh on the skin compared to chlorine.

I've never had a tub so I can't say for certain, but I also believe maintaining bromine levels is easier than with chlorine as well.

My bosses really pushed for bromine for all of these reasons, and probably more.

You could also look into alternatives. Some people run saltwater systems!

The chlorine “smell” of pools is not chlorine itself, but the smell of chloramines which develop from chlorine mixing with organic wastes.

Salt pools just use cells that convert salt into chlorine to sanitize the pool

Who tf tasting the swimming pool though?

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It’s incredibly distinct smell

Thanks for the info.

Any other halogens (chemical class of chlorone and bromine) that can be used for pools?

Any other halogens (chemical class of chlorine and bromine) that can be used for pools?