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by emilyw on August 26th, 2005

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Can drinking water with higher levels of chloride dehydrate, rather than hydrate you?

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  • by JackNicklaus on November 18th, 2005

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    It all depends on the concentration of the Chlorine levels. If you took a handful of dried chlorine and put it in your mouth, it would burn your mouth. This would combine to form HCl or hydrochloric acid and this would absorb any H20 present. This would burn the lining of your mouth. Don't try this. The levels of chlorine in normal tapwater are much lower. This will not cause problems to your gastro intestinal tract.
    But the pH of chlorinated water is lower than non chlorinated water. That means chlorinated water is always more acedic than non chlorinated water. The answer to your question is chlorinated water could actually dehydrate you if the concentration levels were high enough. However, this is much higher than the levels in our tapwaters. And the benefits of having the chlorine kill the bacteria and other water born parasites greatly out weighs the much smaller risk of damaging our internal organs. Next discussion will be...is floride beneficial to us in our drinking water?

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    • The questioner asked about chlorIDE not chlorINE.

      Max Power

      by Max Power on December 11th, 2005

    • Chloride and chlorine is the same thing, just one is more descriptive, Chloride is an anion, and is it highly reactive and often referred to by lay people as chlorine (which does not exist as Cl, only as Cl- )

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on February 14th, 2007

    • Okay, I'm not an expert chemist.

      Max Power

      by Max Power on February 14th, 2007

    • sorry if I sounded harsh :)

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on February 14th, 2007

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