this kind of piggybacks off another thread... does boiling tap water remove Chlorine / Chlorimides, or does it actually concentrate it???

[Magnum Man]

Distilling will remove chlorine, as best I know, but that is condensing the steam boiled off the water... just boiling water typically concentrates most compounds, unless they are boiled off as a vapor... just speculating, that chlorine gas bubbled into tap water, probably would boil off, but adding the more stable & widely used Chlorimide, probably only concentrates into boiled tap water???

is there a chemist in the house???

 

[CassCats]

It boils out and evaporates

 

[fishorama]

With just chlorine & not chloramine, it should just offgas. But how fast does that happen? I don't know. Back in the olden days when we only had chlorine in our tap water, we aged our tank change water in gallons all over the place. But we didn't change nearly as much water as we do now.

It may be false economy to boil water rather than using sodium thiosulphate if you only have chlorine, I'm not sure. Now I use Prime since I have chloramine. It's more expensive but not really bad. The price of hobbies...they're not cheap...vs effort...I'm pretty sure I will not be boiling WC water, barring an emergency of some kind.

 

[MaloK]

Boiling has low influence on chloramine. And chlorine is volatile enough to lose potency in hours at room temp.

Both are quite different.