Pool Shock and Brake Fluid at College Station - 1

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lol

watching lads stood in a car park, yea, great

No worries mate, I know all the police round here. I made a 20 ft trebuchet last month and officer grant drove by as we were using it. He just said, "I don't wanna know what that is."

Heh, watch out. College Station is a cupcake town. The police have nothing better to do other than to look for people exploring any aspect of science.

The gas products that burn are short hydrocarbon chains and their alcohols. Propane, propanol, butane, butanol etc. The harmful part of the product is that the cloud contains particulates of the reducing agent, calcium hypochlorite, so if you breath the cloud you breath in small amounts of bleach. I did this experiment for national chemistry week at my university. It is pretty safe.

what doesn't produce chlorine gas? I could be wrong but i though that when you mix chlorine with brake fluid the reaction produces chlorine gas?

it doesn't produce chlorine gas.

very nice. quite good with no deadly biproducts like the chlroine gas produced in the reaction resulting from the mixture of chlorine and brake fluid.