What is bleach made out of?
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To bleach something is to remove or lighten its color; a "bleach" is a chemical that can produce these effects, often via oxidization. Common chemical bleaches include sodium hypochlorite, or "chlorine bleach," and "oxygen bleach," which contains hydrogen peroxide or a peroxide-releasing compound such as sodium perborate or sodium percarbonate. "Bleaching powder" is calcium hypochlorite. Bleaching may be a preliminary step in the process of dyeing.\n\nHousehold bleach or sodium hypochlorite is used in the home for whitening clothes, removing stains, and disinfecting. This is because sodium hypochlorite yields chlorine radicals—oxidizing agents readily reacting with many substances.\n\nHair bleach contains H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide), which gives off oxygen radicals as it decomposes. Oxygen and chlorine radicals both have comparable bleaching effects.\n\nChlorine bleach is often used with laundry detergent and is also commonly used as a disinfectant by homemakers and janitors. Mixing bleach and cleaners containing ammonia, or using bleach to clean up urine can create toxic chloramine gases and an explosive called nitrogen trichloride.\n\nNot all bleaches have to be of oxidizing nature. Sodium dithionite is used as a powerful reducing agent in some bleaching formulas.\n\nChlorine dioxide is used for the bleaching of wood pulp, fats and oils, cellulose, flour, textiles, beeswax, and in a number of other industries.\n\nIn the food industry, some organic peroxides (acetone peroxide, benzoyl peroxide, etc.) and other agents (e.g. bromates) are used as flour bleaching and maturing agents.
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Bleach is a popular laundry aid and helps detergents remove soils and stains. Through oxidization, laundry bleaches convert soil into more soluble, colorless or dispersible particles that can be removed by detergent and carried away in the wash water.\n\nThe two general oxidizing types are sodium hypochlorite (also called chlorine or liquid household bleach) and oxygen. Sodium hypochlorite and oxygen bleaches should not be used together. The benefits of both are lost when combined.\n\nColor removers, considered reducing bleaches, are also products in the bleach category. \nSodium Hypochlorite Bleach\nLiquid sodium hypochlorite bleach is the most widely used, although a dry form is also available. Liquid sodium hypochlorite bleach is made by combining chlorine with a solution of sodium hydroxide to produce sodium hypochlorite, sodium chloride and water. The sodium chloride is a by-product of the chemical reaction and remains in the solution as an inactive ingredient. When liquid sodium hypochlorite bleach is added to the wash, sodium hypochlorite reacts with the soil and organic matter. As a result, liquid household bleach:\n\n1) Oxidizes soil and aids in its removal\n2) Acts as a disinfectant on both bacteria and viruses likely to be encountered in the home\n3) Generally whitens fabrics\n\nThe bleaching action of sodium hypochlorite is essentially completed in about 5 minutes, even less time in hot water, but slightly longer in cold.\n\nThe dry version performs like liquid sodium hypochlorite bleach when dissolved in water. \nOxygen Bleach (all-fabric bleach)\nOxygen bleaches are available in both a dry and liquid form. All dry oxygen bleaches contain inorganic peroxygen compounds, such as sodium perborate tetrahydrate and sodium percarbonate. When dissolved, the inorganic peroxygen compounds convert to hydrogen peroxide (the oxidizing agent) and the residue of the compound (e.g., sodium borate or carbonate). Liquid oxygen bleaches contain hydrogen peroxide, which supplies the oxidizing agent directly. The hydrogen peroxide reacts with the soil and organic materials in the wash to either decolorize or break them up. Hydrogen peroxide provides a more gentle bleaching action than sodium hypochlorite used in chlorine bleaches.
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Bleaching causes a chemical reaction with the molecules that were absorbing light (i.e., giving the material color).   After the reaction, the molecules no longer absorb light, and the color is gone.   Voila!\n\nIf you want to know more about the specifics I would suggest you find a nice book on organic chemistry and read up on the parts on visible spectroscopy,
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Bleach\nsodium hyporchlorite has HCL in it\nMuritic acid
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BLEACH---WHATS WRONG WITH PEOPLE---
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Cell membranes are made of lipid bilayers, meaning it is made of a type of fat.  KOH is a strong base that is capable of reacting with the fat in the same reaction that produces soap.  This destroys the lipid bilayer
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Paper is made from wood, which is made up mainly of white cellulose. Wood also has a lot of a dark substance in it called lignin, which ends up in the paper, too, along with the cellulose. The exposure of lignin to air and sunlight is what turns paper yellow.\n\nLignin makes wood stiff and trees stand upright. You could say it acts as a glue to bind the cellulose fibers together. It is a polymer, a substance that is formed by the joining of simpler molecules into giant molecules that act differently than the smaller molecules did. Dr. Hou-Min Chang, a professor of wood and paper science at N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C., compares lignin to the concrete used in buildings, with cellulose as the steel frame. Without lignin, Chang says, a tree could only grow to be about 6 feet tall. Lignin also helps protect the wood from pests and other damage.\n\nNewsprint, which must be produced as economically as possible, has more lignin in it than finer papers. At the mill, the wood that will be turned into newsprint is ground up, lignin and all.\n\nPaper manufacturers utilize the benefits of lignin in some types of paper, though. Brown kraft paper, the dark brown paper used in grocery store bags, and cardboard are stiff and sturdy because they have more lignin in them, and because those kinds of paper aren't treated with bleaching chemicals. It doesn't matter how dark they are because the printing on them is limited.\n\nTo make a fine white paper, the mill puts the wood through a chemical solvent process, which separates and discards the lignin. Pure cellulose is white, and the paper made from it will be white and will resist yellowing.\n\nLignin eventually turns paper yellow because of oxidation. That is, the lignin molecules, when exposed to oxygen in the air, begin to change and become less stable. The lignin will absorb more light, giving off a darker color. Chang says that if newsprint were kept completely out of sunlight and air, it would remain white. After only a few hours of sunlight and oxygen, however, it will start to change color.
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When bleaching powder is added to the washing machine, it mixes with water and chlorine is released to bleach the clothes.  If the container is not kept air tight, moisture in the air will enter the powder and release the chlorine which will no longer be available to bleach the clothes.
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Would you buy thick bleach that was really thin bleach?
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Household bleach contains sodium hyplohlorate. When it decomposes it can release chlorine gas, which is toxic.\n\nAdding acids or heat or ammonina will result in rapid release of chlorine gas.\n\nVinegar is an acid.\n\n\nDO NOT DO THIS!
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Made up of two glucose isomers.\n\nEntirely carbon, oxygen and hydrogen
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I like Bleach\nRanma \nNaruto \nSamurai Deeper kyo \nthats about it
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By making glycerine a low pH, you make it more acidic. Bleaching solutions are more stable at a low pH.\n\n"bleaching products include glycerine, sodium stannate, flavorings, and phosphoric or citric\nacid. Because bleaching solutions are more stable at a lower pH, phosphoric or citric acid\nis added to lower their pH. Commonly, home bleaching products have a pH range of from\n5 to 7, but some products vary from 3 to 8.5 due to variations in quality control. It is\nimportant to note that the somewhat low pH of bleaching products is quickly neutralized\nwhen the solution comes into contact with saliva."
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It's hydrogen peroxide.  It's commonly used as a disinfectant and can be found at most drug stores.  Incidentally, you'll find it in a dark colored opaque bottle because it breaks apart into hydrogen and oxygen gas, and light speeds up this process.\n\nEdit: \n>>>but it decomposes into water and oxygen gas, not hydrogen and oxygen gas.<<<\n\nWoops... you're right.  I need to get more sleep.\n\nIt decomposes according to the reaction:\n\n2(H2O2) -> 2(H2O) + O2
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bleach  lots and lots of bleach ,  that stuff can cure anything and its cheap!
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Tungsten mostly, but there are other metals used. There are also gasses that glow too in bulbs that have no filiment wire.
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Well, bleach is kinda yellowish...so it will prolly neutralize all the other colors and remain yellowish...?