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Well, as I added a little Clorox Bleach to my load of white laundry, I thought, nice I needed a topic for my chemistry site anyway, so bleach seemed reasonable. (And yes I do my own laundry.) |
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I thought about why my mother had told me to put Clorox Bleach with my white laundry, and what it did to the laundry and how it effected the load ? |
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What is Bleach? |
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It is a clear, pale, yellow or greenish liquid, producing a sharp pungent odor. It is chemically a dilute solution made up of soduim hypochlorite and calcium hypochlorite which kills bacteria and destroys colored organic materials by oxidizing them. Which means bleach is an oxidizing agent, a reactant that removing electrons from reactants in a chemical reaction. Oxidizing agents cause other substances to be oxidized in chemical reactions while they themselves are reduced. It is mostly used in household cleaning, laundry, swimming pools, and water treatment. It can be shipped by tank truck and/or rail car. Then it can be stored in tanks, drums, and/or tote tanks. You most likely have experienced with bleach when doing your laundry. |
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Some Questions and Answers You May Have About Bleach? |
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Is liquid bleach highly toxic or bad for the environment?
Liquid bleach starts as salt water and ends as salt water. When used in the laundry, virtually all the liquid bleach reacts and is converted back into salt water. What little reaction byproducts remain are effectively handled by waste water treatment.
Does bleach brake your fabric down?
When used properly, liquid bleach does not affect life of fabric. Test show that even after 50 wash cycles, fabric washed in detergent with bleach, is just as resilient as fabric washed in detergent alone.
Is chorine and liquid bleach the same thing?
Actually they aren't. The term "chlorine bleach" is actually misleading. What's in the bottle is sodium hypochlorite, the active ingredient in liquid bleach. Although chlorine is used to manufacture soduim hypochlorite, there is no free chlorine in bleach. |
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We use bleach for a lot of things in our society, including our laundry, cleaning, and turning our hair blonde. Bleach has positively influenced the way we go about our lifes. I mean it doesn't have the importance the cell phone or computers have had but, it stills has made our lifes better, and certainly is a porduct worth its money. |
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You can't use liquid bleach on these uniforms, it would make the purple fade into violet. |
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