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Mixing 5-9% solutions will still produce chlorine/chloramine gas and can cause significant lung damage. The maximum commercially available (sodium hypochlorite
by catiopatio 4y ago
Mixing 5-9% solutions will still produce chlorine/chloramine gas and can cause significant lung damage.
The maximum commercially available (sodium hypochlorite) bleach concentration is about 15%, and that’s due to its non-linear rate of decomposition and extremely short shelf-life at higher concentrations.
A 15% solution must be used very soon after manufacture and does not have significant non-industrial uses — that’s why it’s not stocked in grocery stores. It has nothing to do with its safety at that concentration.
100% bleach would be anhydrous sodium hypochlorite, which is highly unstable and can decompose explosively.
Nobody stocks that.