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Lindsay Davis

How would urea or uric acid react to chlorine bleach?

Damon Howze  Follow

When I pee in a toilet with bleach in it , chlorine gas is given off. I think the hypochlorite is oxidised to chlorine gas by the urea in the urine.

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Bradley Dichter  Follow

A substitution reaction occurs with chlorine to give

  1. chlorourea: Urea

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