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Using Vitamin C to neutralize bleach in water
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Mawerere Swaliki
Using Vitamin C to neutralize bleach in water
It says that it's better to use the conjugate base, sodium ascorbate, instead of vitamin C. Your bleach is probably 5 or 15%, it should say on the bottle.
It says that it's better to use the conjugate base, sodium ascorbate, instead of vitamin C. Your bleach is probably 5 or 15%, it should say on the bottle.More
Using sodium ascorbate seems to have a weaker impact on the pH compared to ascorbic acid but there still is an impact, especially as one of the products is an acid itself (dehydroascorbic acid). So I highly recommend to still test the pH of your water afterwards.
Using sodium ascorbate seems to have a weaker impact on the pH compared to ascorbic acid but there still is an impact, especially as one of the products is an acid itself (dehydroascorbic acid). So I highly recommend to still test the pH of your water afterwards.More
That's what it looks like the team did in the USDA study. There's a picture of Clorox bleach but in their charts it says: 6% sodium chloride, which is salt... right? My chemistry is rusty but I don't understand why the formulas use hypochlorous acid, the charts are sodium chloride, but there's a picture of bleach... so, I'm still wondering about the products produced...More
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