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Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:36PM (#19210634)
> chlorine itself is pretty much fine for you

It's difficult to imagine a context that would make this sentence reasonable. Chlorine is a light halogen. It's fine if it's bound to something stable, like in salt. It certainly isn't fine by itself. It's literally one step up from fluorine, the most horrifying substance known to man.

The safety diamond for chlorine rates it a 4 for health: "Very short exposure could cause death or major residual injury".

Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by 0xdeadb00f on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:22AM (#19215629)
Not to mention the fact that elemental Chlorine gas is incredibly poisonous and was used in WW1 (the first gaseous chemical weapon according to Wikipedia).
Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by black-tea on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:15AM (#19216615)
One step from being fluorine? That's a nuclear reaction. Elements can't change during chemical reactions.
Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by detaro on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:28AM (#19216684)
Not one reaction step, one row up in the periodic table, as a sign for "what is it chemically similar to"