[CH] Re: the bleach cure
chilehead@tough-love.com
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:40:57 -0400
The PH of vinegar (acidic) is 2.8, distilled water (neutral) is 7.0 and
bleach is 12.6. If that ain't alkaline I'd be lyeing. Household lye is 13.6
and battery (sulfuric) acid is 0.3. The scale goes from 14 (alkaline) to 0
(acidic).
Dave
TLCC
> Bleach is acidic, not alkaline. It is alkalis like sodium or potassium
> hydroxide that cause saponification. Getting a strong alkali like oven or
> drain cleaner on your hands turns the oils and fats in your skin to soap, so
> it feels slippery.
>
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> >Dr. Tom Mabry of the Department of Botany, University of Texas at
> Austin, suggested that the >alkaline bleach ionizes the phenolic
> hydroxyl group in the active ingredients, all of which are >phenolic
> amides (e.g., dihydrocapciacin), making the compounds water soluble; at
> the same time, >the ionized phenolic ring in each ccompound would be
> readily oxidized by the bleach, thereby >altering the structures and
> properties of the compounds
> .
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> I was always taught that bleach works because it saponifies. .
> .essentially, turns to soap,
> which would account for the slippery feel. . .a thin surface layer of
> skin cells, which then
> wash off easily, taking the problematical compounds with them. Could
> Dr. Mabry be overcomplicating things because he's never made homemade
> soap as Solstice presents,
> or was my source (a chemist) full of caca?
>
> Keep on rockin',
> Rain
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