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Article: Chemical reaction: for more than 60 years, Class 3 oxidizers were a mainstay in the pool industry, even though they fueled dozens of chemical fires. A recent trend sees manufacturers offering safer alternatives. What happened, and why now?
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- Pool & Spa News
- Article date:
- May 23, 2005
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Brian Quint will soon be able to rest easy. The president of Aqua Quip Pool & Spa has played hardball with his local fire department for the past decade over the proper storage of pool chemicals in his 7,500-square-foot warehouse in Seattle.
But this autumn, Quint unveils a $3 million, 30,000-square-foot facility that will house the company's administrative offices and pool chemicals. Roughly $250,000 is being directed to developing a state-of-the-art hazardous materials storage area that he hopes will finally quell the concerns of the Seattle Fire Department.
One of the chemicals stored by his company is calcium hypochlorite. Considered extremely ...
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... ... sanitizers are calcium hypochlorite, or cal hypo, and the chlorinated isocyanurates ... additional susceptibility to ignition, cal hypo and, to a lesser degree, trichlor have ... liquid runoff, and solid residue. While cal hypo itself is noncombustible, it has provided ...
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