Whats in chlorine and alcohol that causes a chlorine bomb?? Look at this video...?
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Mixing chlorine and alcohol to produce an exposion is quite dangerous, and has caused numerous injuries in children who tried to emulate those videos.  However, the reason for the explosion is that chlorine is highly reactive because it only needs to acquire one electron to fill its valence shell, so it reacts explosively with alcohol to form alkyl chloride, also called chloroalkane.
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I don't think a lot of people read this. It is interesting information. I had to take a tree hugger science last year and one of the things the professor admitted to is that another one of the destructive gases to the ozone that they beleive is causing the global warming is ethanol, and uria, which are both caused by natural body occurances, the ethonal comes from Pooh, while the uria comes from Urine. Not just human but animal as well. I personally don't know, but am refreshed to see another prospective on the whole thing. Now they can prove all of it, inclucding the CFC part Maybe we can all use Aqua Net again.
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What you describe is not a chemical compound.  tetrachloro- means 4 chlorines and -ol implies an alcohol.  Carbon atoms have tetrahedral bond angles.  Could you have mixed these terms up?
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When chlorine gas dissolves in water, it forms the relatively weak acid hypochlorous acid\n\nCl2 + H2O --> HClO + HCl\n\nHypochlorous acid is the strong oxidizing agent that acts as a disinfectant.\n\nTake note that reaction must take place in dark. Otherwise, there is formation of undesirable HCL (which raises the saltiness of the water and decreases pH significantly) according to reaction\n\n2HClO (sunlight)--> 2HCl + O2\n\nSince most pools are sunlight, there is decrease of hypochlorous acid over time, resulting in the formation of more and more HCl, which makes the water saltier.  Therefore, chlorine must be added at regular intervals.
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water, rubbing alcohol or if nothing else acid :P(dont really do acid)
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Could the bromine react with the iron to form FeBr3?  If I remember right, the Febr3 should make it easier to react with toluene (hence the iron catalyst).  I'm not sure about the math, but it seems like toluene was the excess reagent so FeBr3 shouldnt be leftover...\n\nDo you know if either of the distillation products are a bromotoluene?  From what you said, dibromotoluene could have come out.  Also, the methyl group has activating properties, so there will likely be more than one substitution, possibly even 3
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bremerton washington ... 19 yrs ago...someone dropped something into a beer I left unitended... think it was acid or something like it ... happened to several people there.. one second a good time next conan the barbarian waves at me from a poster.. the radio is making noises....and poof three days of pure hell... so watch your drinks.. dont drink anything you left for awhile....
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yeah...it's called too much chlorine!
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bubbling the O2/Cl2 mixture through aqueous NaOH will remove the Cl2.  it reacts to give bleach ... NaOCl ... (and salt and water).  assuming you didn't want the Cl2 ;-)
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Background: Chlorine gas is a pulmonary irritant with intermediate water solubility that causes acute damage in the upper and lower respiratory tract. Chlorine gas was  first used as a chemical weapon at Ypres, France in 1915. Of the 70,552 American soldiers poisoned with various gasses in World War I, 1843 were exposed to chlorine gas.\n    Pathophysiology: Chlorine is a greenish-yellow, noncombustible gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The intermediate water solubility of chlorine accounts for its effect on the upper airway and the lower respiratory tract. Exposure to chlorine gas may be prolonged because its moderate water solubility may not cause upper airway symptoms for several minutes. In addition, the density of the gas is greater than that of air, causing it to remain near ground level and increasing exposure time. The odor threshold for chlorine is approximately 0.3-0.5 parts per million (ppm); however, distinguishing toxic air levels from permissible air levels may be difficult until irritative symptoms are present.\n     Chlorine is moderately soluble in water and reacts in combination to form hypochlorous (HOCl) and hydrochloric (HCl) acids. Elemental chlorine and its derivatives, hydrochloric and hypochlorous acids, may cause biological injury. The chemical reactions of chlorine combining with water and the subsequent derivative reactions with HOCl and HCl are as follows:\n\na1) Cl2 + H2O « HCl (hydrochloric acid) + HOCL (hypochlorous acid) or\n\na2) Cl2 + H2O « 2 HCl + [O-] (nascent oxygen)\n\nb) HOCl « HCl + [O-]\n\n   Mechanism of activity\nThe mechanisms of the above biological activity are poorly understood and the predominant anatomic site of injury may vary, depending on the chemical species produced. Cellular injury is believed to result from the oxidation of functional groups in cell components, from reactions with tissue water to form hypochlorous and hydrochloric acid, and from the generation of free oxygen radicals. Although the idea that chlorine causes direct tissue damage by generating free oxygen radicals was once accepted, this idea is now controversial.\n     Solubility effects\nHydrochloric acid is highly soluble in water. The predominant targets of the acid are the epithelia of the ocular conjunctivae and upper respiratory mucus membranes.\n     Hypochlorous acid is also highly water soluble with an injury pattern similar to hydrochloric acid. Hypochlorous acid may account for the toxicity of elemental chlorine and hydrochloric acid to the human body.\n\n      Early response to chlorine gas\nChlorine gas, when mixed with ammonia, reacts to form chloramine gas. In the presence of water, chloramines decompose to ammonia and hypochlorous acid or hydrochloric acid. The early response to chlorine exposure depends on the (1) concentration of chlorine gas, (2) duration of exposure, (3) water content of the tissues exposed, and (4) individual susceptibility.\n\n      Immediate effects\nThe immediate effects of chlorine gas toxicity include acute inflammation of the conjunctivae, nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, and bronchi. Irritation of the airway mucosa leads to local edema secondary to active arterial and capillary hyperemia. Plasma exudation results in filling the alveoli with edema fluid, resulting in pulmonary congestion.\n\n     Pathologic findings\nPathologic findings are nonspecific. They include severe pulmonary edema, pneumonia, hyaline membrane formation, multiple pulmonary thromboses, and ulcerative tracheobronchitis.\n\n      The hallmark of pulmonary injury associated with chlorine toxicity is pulmonary edema, manifested as hypoxia. Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema is thought to occur when there is a loss of pulmonary capillary integrity, and subsequent transudation of fluid into the alveolus is present. The onset can occur within minutes or hours, depending upon severity of exposure. Persistent hypoxemia is associated with a higher mortality rate.\n     The eye seldom is
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Ethanol has a low flash point (-5 C), which is the temperature at which enough vapors in the air can be present to create an explosive atmosphere; a spark or flame can cause an explosion.  It also does burn with a weakly colored flame, making it hard to see.  \nAlso - high-strength ethanol that you can by is called denatured alcohol - there are many kinds, but they are all poisoned with something - methanol, isopropanol, toluene etc. which render it undrinkable.  Don't do it.\nPunch in "MSDS" and "ethanol" into yahoo and pull up a material safety data sheet.
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a) Toluene and Cl2 form p-chlorotoluene and HCl in presence of AlCl3\nb) nitrobenzene + Cl2 -(AlCl3)-> m-chloro-nitrobenzene\nc) chlorobenzene + Cl2 -(AlCl3)-> p-dichlorobenzene\nd) 1-(3-chlorophenyl)ethanone\ne) 3-chlorophenyl acetate\nf) methyl 3-chlorobenzoate\n\nOrganic Chem rocks!
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a) You friend is wrong. Even pure water has some OH- and H3O+ ions. The concentrations are very low (10^-7), but they are there.\n\nb) There is Clorine in Clorox (sodium hypochlorite), and the bleaching reaction causes oxidation.
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Chlorine (Cl2) is dosed in water to disinfect gems & bacteria, so it might have an effect.Pressure pump does increase this corrosion due to the friction between the water & the pipe.
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The bubbles are steam, or water vapor.  They are NOT from hydrogen and oxygen.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2134266654801392897\n\nmentos and diet soda, baking soda and vinegar.\n\nthough i'm wondering how the hell you're supposed to drop elemental hydrogen in water.  if you make it a solid that would be new and it wouldn't do anything...
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Well, this is easy. Just look at each species and see if its oxidation state is going up or down. I'll do the first one--the rest are the same.\n\nH2S + Cl2 --> 2HCl + S\n\nWell, the sulfur is going from a -2 state to a 0 state. This means it's oxidizing. The chlorine is going from a 0 state to a -1 state. This means it's reducing. So, the sulfur is the reducing agent (because it's making the chloringe reduce) and the chlorine is the oxidizing agent. Be careful--oxidizing agent actually means it's reducing.\n\nSolve the other two the same way.