Sunday, March 29, 2020

I just realized what the squirrel was smelling

It's the Bromide from the hot tub that I use to purify the water which the squirrel would automatically instinctively know was poisonous and wouldn't want to be near it. But, you can either use Chlorine which I don't like the smell of or Bromide which is bearable from my point of view or you can use Salt and make your pool or hot tub salty like the ocean like my cousin does on his pool in southern California. But, it seems like a lot of work and technology to convert to a salt water pool like you can now. If I had a large swimming pool that's what I would do though. But, that isn't very common outside like it is in Southern California or Arizona where I live on the Northern California coast simply because it's too expensive to heat your pool here and in southern California you can solar heat your pool almost year around which saves a whole lot of money. He puts something over the top of the pool  that looks sort of like bubble wrap to trap the heat from the sun so it's swimmable almost year around that way without huge heating bills.

So, it was the bromide that the squirrel smelled. How Funny!

Note:Just realized that Bromide isn't what is actually used in Hot tubs it's Bromine!

Bromine is a chemical element with symbol Br and atomic number 35. It is the third-lightest halogen, and is a fuming red-brown liquid at room temperature that evaporates readily to form a similarly coloured gas. Its properties are thus intermediate between those of chlorine and iodine.
 
bro·mide
/ˈbrōmīd/
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noun
  1. 1.
    CHEMISTRY
    a compound of bromine with another element or group, especially a salt containing the anion Br or an organic compound with bromine bonded to an alkyl radical.
  2. 2.
    a trite and unoriginal idea or remark, typically intended to soothe or placate.
    "feel-good bromides create the illusion of problem solving"


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