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Peroxide is a bleaching agent
A particularly strong oxidizer at that. Which is why the paint came up in chips
I really doubt it. Maybe in the direct area that is was poured into. But they'd literally have to have dumped swimming pools worth of it into it for it to do anything.
The pool takes 6 Million gallons of water to fill. They were pouring in peroxide by hand. By hand. They were essentially pouring gallons of water into water. When hydrogen peroxide is exposed to any heat (like from the fucking sun in the summer) it degrades significantly faster. The hydrogen peroxide just turns into water while releasing oxygen gas.
It could have reacted with the paint directly where it was being poured in before getting diluted. But I think the paint job was just garbage in the first place. It probably wasn't sealed correctly. Given how entire sheets of it were just floating around.
Edit: Wikipedia and it's sources agree with me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool
Not to mention that hydrogen peroxide readily reacts with organic matter (which is how it kills stuff) and the pool was full of algae to react with.
My guess is that either a layer of grey crud grew over the liner, or the dye/liner was never water safe to begin with.
Reading into the Wikipedia sources it seems the type of sealant used was liked not cured sufficiently before it was exposed to the elements. (Makes sense, the average pool isn't getting cooked in direct sunlight like the reflecting pool was).
It's like a home chef trying to cook in an industrial kitchen for 1000s of people. Trump's pool guy just repeated the process used for personal pools on a project way beyond the scale they were qualified for. Shit didn't work how they expected it to in a completely different climate and and scale.
It short. "Trump's friend" was completely unqualified. Shocker.
Fair enough. Just been working with chlorine/corrosion lately so it's on my mind.
Frankly, so is the sun.