The consumer devices sold widely in Japan use calcium tablets or powder
versus salt, but there's definitely production of some chorine or
chloride in the runoff. It smells very much like chlorox bleach.
Supposedly it is good for the skin.
On Thursday, Apr 2, 2009, at 18:09 Asia/Tokyo, Ode Coyote wrote:
It turns out that zapping salt water with low-voltage electricity
creates a couple of powerful yet nontoxic cleaning agents. Sodium ions
are converted into sodium hydroxide, an alkaline liquid that cleans
and degreases like detergent, but without the scrubbing bubbles.
Chloride ions become hypochlorous acid, a potent disinfectant known as
acid water.
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