Ascorbic acid is the safest and cheapest way to neutralize chlorine and chloramine.
Ascorbic acid is the safest and cheapest way to neutralize chlorine and chloramine.
One gram of ascorbic acid will neutralize 1 milligram per liter of chlorine per 100 gallons of water. The reaction is very fast. The chemical reaction (Tikkanen and others 2001) of ascorbic acid with chlorine is shown below:
