Be warned: Some hypochlorous acid mists have a potent, pool-like chlorine smell (that’s the Cl in HOCl you’re picking up), which dissipates after application. It might smell like something you ...

When chlorine — sold as a granular powder, liquid or sometimes in its elemental form as a gas — is added to water, it forms a weak acid called hypochlorous acid. This acid is very proficient ...

D.C. They discovered for the first time that dilute solutions of hypochlorous acid, or free chlorine, as low as 200 -- or even 20 -- milligrams per liter will completely inactivate noroviruses on ...

When these compounds are added to water, they spontaneously form hypochlorous acid, which is the disinfecting agent commonly called free chlorine in pool lingo. Residential pool owners are most ...