Does isopropyl alcohol work as a homemade liquid solar cover for pools?
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Not by itself. It's used in the dispenser and contents to keep the liquid from forming polymer chains, before it's released into the pool water. Upon release it floats to the pool surface and evaporates, not dissolves, as someone has said. The remaining liquid from what's released turns into a chemical chain, at the suface that slowly evaporates off. The actual chemical can be purchased, instead of buying those fish. It's avaliabe here. http://shop.solardirect.com/product_info...
by the gallon.
The reason they use isopropyl alcohol is so that it won't feeze over the winter.
Oh, and don't pour alcohol in your pool.
Without additives the alcohol will just evaporate.
The alcohol is the solvent in which the active ingredients are dissolved. Alcohol will dissolve in the water, so it is of no use as a solar aid. You must have a molecular "cover" on top of the water. Unfortunately, those ingredients are not required to be listed, as is the alcolol.
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