What is bromine?
Bromine is an alternative product to the most effective chlorine for the sanitation of pool water, since there is a close chemical analogy between the two substances; the effective active ingredient is hypobromic acid.
It has a very poor solubility and, because of this, it is used in slow-dissolving 20 g tablets, due to the very poor solubility, it is not enough to put the tablets in the skimmer for a dosage of the product in the pool, but it is necessary to use a lapping dispenser.
Bromine, or rather hypobromic acid, has a disinfecting and oxidizing action on pool water and, by reacting with microorganisms and organic substances, is transformed into bromide, a chemically inactive form.
What are the benefits?
Like chlorine, bromine also forms complex substances with nitrogen, bromamines, but in contrast to chloramines it does NOT have a significant irritant effect and an unpleasant odour. This makes it a product that is particularly suitable for use in indoor pools and SPAs .
Bromine is not covered by regulations as a product for use in public pools, therefore it can only be used in private pools and SPAs.
Maximum limit is 0.4 ppm
