Chemistry of Ammonia and Bleach

Ever wonder why mixing ammonia and bleach is so bad for you? Come on in!

0:48 Ammonia
1:32 Bleach
1:52 Monochloramine
3:31 Monochloramine pH Dependency
4:30 Dichloramine
4:54 Trichloramine
5:51 Chlorine Gas
6:24 Hydrochloric Acid
6:37 Hydrazine

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[PyrotechnicalScience]

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[sanu]

OMG THANK YOU. I was going mad trying to find what the actual reaction between bleach and ammonia is and all I could find was contradiction after contradiction. This video was exactly what I needed, clearing up pretty much every product I thought was plausible from what I read online, and concisely at that! I also think I found the same source that said you could decompose the HOCl into HCl and O lmao glad I wasn't the only one who got a kick out of that.

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[toxikspeakz]

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Thank you for posting.

[scottgarcia]

man i was just curious about the chemical reaction that actually happens with mixing these two, but damn am I glad I found your page. you're hilarious, and thorough in your knowledge. I busted up laughing when you went on your tangent about Nitrogen Trichloride.

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[sreejithgopinath]

Awesome explanation. Do you have the same information about Chemistry of Lysol (alkyl dimethyl alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride) + clorox bleach? Does this combination create chlorine gas?

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[ihbarddx]

Actually, chloramines are much more noxious than NH3. As a kid, I coughed for 15 minutes after minor inhalation of the stuff, which resulted from mixing NH4Cl with bleach. (I should also remark that this reaction is more acidic than the one you described, and yet it goes faster.) The gas evolved also exploded when ignited with a match. Anyway, chloramines should indeed be taken seriously, IMHO.

[jacobhill]

Highschool custodian here. Sometimes old urinals don't really flush well and somehow urine concentrates in the plumbing. Pour some bleach in there, immediate foaming and chlorine smell. Kind of ran away and that hallway outside the bathroom was blocked off for a couple hours. Could smell it all the way down the hall and got increasingly irritating to eyes and nasal cavities the closer you got

[vinnyday]

i like the connection to equilibrium. Keep it up!

[swaghenk]

7:34 so if I did accidentally do that would the reaction work?

[themfnjessiah]

I once made the idiotic mistake of pouring rest stain remover (largely ammonia) into a pre-pay jug cleaning an apartments carpet for a move in. I wasn't aware that the jug id grabbed was from another job and instead of cleaner it was mostly straight bleach hooked up to a pressure line. I remember dropping it coughing spitting my lungs burning my head disoriented and pounding as I opened the windows and ran out the door. It took 3-4 hours before I finished that job and sat disoriented in my work vehicle my respiratory system felt like it had been seared from the inside... it was horrible

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