Mineral pool additives another scam? (King Technologies pool frog)

[chem geek]

PS: Chem_Geek, can you footnote that bit about fecals? In reworking PoolSolutions, I'm finding that a lot of links have gone bad, and that Google can't find the original article. So I'm trying to archive ALL my references as I update things.

I assume you're being facetious since that post I wrote has 25 footnotes referring to 28 scientific peer-reviewed papers in respected journals or official tables from the CDC and the like. Yes, links going bad are always a problem, but fortunately links to scientific papers usually stick around as the journals tend not to change and some use the digital object identifier (doi) system.

I want to give a warning to those who might just look at a long list of scientific paper references and think that this by itself means anything. I was recently in an E-mail conversation with a person from one of the metal ion system sites (electrolysis of copper to make copper ions) and when I asked him to correct his company's website that incorrectly stated that E.coli was killed with 0.5 ppm copper he sent lots of references about copper solid alloys, copper with silver, and copper used in food with poultry. The mechanism for killing of bacteria on solid alloys is different than that of low concentrations of metal ions. The combination of copper and silver (or silver alone) does kill fecal bacteria, but isn't relevant if one is looking and copper-only systems. The concentration of copper in the food with poultry studies was hundreds of times higher than found in pools. So one can't just see references, but has to actually look at them, read them, and understand them. The ways of deceit are many, so one must keep alert and vigilant.

Richard