Sigh. > One part sodium chlorite, a chemical disinfectant, and one part acid This is not bleach. Bleach is sodium hypochlorite. Sodium chlorite can react with

Sigh. > One part sodium chlorite, a chemical disinfectant, and one part acid This is not bleach. Bleach is sodium hypochlorite. Sodium chlorite can react with acids (under appropriate conditions, and as a non-chemist, finding a coherent description of those conditions is surprisingly difficult) to form chlorine dioxide. Chlorine dioxide is a very useful chemical. You can put small amounts of it in water to kill microorganisms, and it is, in many respects, a dramatically better disinfectant than bleach. Here’s some for sale at an entirely legitimate store: https://www.rei.com/product/736898/potable-aqua-chlorine-dioxide-tablets-package-of-30 https://www.rei.com/product/736898/potable-aqua-chlorine-dio... You can use it to make “elemental chlorine free” paper. You can use it in the gas phase to deodorize or disinfect rooms! (But don’t breathe it!) Drinking it in anything more than a tiny concentration left over from water disinfection seems like a mistake to me. Also, AIUI, the chemicals involved in making it can also form chlorate, which is not something you want to be drinking.