Re: Re: trihalomethanes & haloacetic acids

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Hello Tom, thanks for you post."Water purification is done using chlorine dioxide technology."Got that.

"MMS involves acidified sodium chlorite technology."which releases chlorine dioxide, right? So after 3 minutes of actiovation of sodium chlorite we end up with chlorine dioxide in there, correct?It looks to me we have the same thing here; I'm not talking about chlorine, I'm talking about chlorine dioxide; wikipedia explicitely mentions chlorine dioxide when it says it produces THM and HCA in water.thanks.

From: silverfox_science <poast@...>Subject: [ ] Re: trihalomethanes & haloacetic acids Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 10:47 PM

Hello Dacian,

Water purification is done using chlorine dioxide technology.

MMS involves acidified sodium chlorite technology.

They are different.

When chlorine is used to disinfect water, the chlorine attaches itself to the particles in the water and form THM and HCA by products. When chlorine dioxide is used to disinfect water, it is selective in that it does not attach itself to the particles in the water. It does react with them, but does not attach itself to them. The by product formed is chlorite. While it is possible for some THM and HCA to form, the amount is small enough to be considered insignificant.

In a closed water system, chlorine dioxide lasts a long time. In water systems, testing is done to make sure there is a residual of chlorine dioxide at the point furthest from the point of treatment. As long as there is residual chlorine dioxide, the water remains disinfected.

Tom

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> Hello group

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> As one of the potential problems (side effects) of using chlorine dioxide for water purification is the formation of THM (trihalomethanes) and HCA (haloacetic acids) which are carcinogenic in large quantities.

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> From wikipedia

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_purification

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> But then I search the previous posts here on thrihalomethanes and found this study published here which says MMS realeases no thrihalomethanes when 30 to 60 drops are added to the water.

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> Now maybe both statements are true, but wikipedia says "carcinogenic" in large quantities. What is large quantities, can anyone help? Or is wikipedia wrong (it gives no reference to a study on this).

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> Btw, has anyone drink water purified using MMS for large periods of time? Is there any benefit after 2 hours of the release of chlorine dioxide by the activation of sodium chlorite? I read on Jim Humble's protocol that chlorine dioxide will be available after ingestide for 1/2 hours, not more. So if I purify my water, will it stay pure after 1/2 hours? I assume not, bacteria and parasites will have no problem starting to live in there, right?

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> thanks

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