On Monday, 11 December 2017 22:57:46 UTC, Max Demian wrote:
On 11/12/2017 21:42, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2017-12-11, tabbypurr wrote:
On Monday, 11 December 2017 14:29:11 UTC, Rob Morley wrote:
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 19:54:46 -0800 (PST)
tabbypurr wrote:


MDS
https://www.homecareessentials.co.uk...pray_5..07.pdf

so to sum up, it's bleach.

And caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) a precursor of sodium hypochlorite,
also useful as a cleaner, and available cheaply £2 for 500g in Wilko.
(B&Q website claims to sell it for half that, but none of the nearby
stores have stock).

I thought that was present in household bleach.

IIRC chlorine bleach has sodium hypochlorite as the active ingredient
& a small amount of something cheap & alkaline (typically sodium
hydroxide) just to make it more stable.

"Pure" liquid bleach (like Milton) contains a small amount of sodium
chloride, but that's just a bi-product of manufacture - it's made by
passing chlorine gas through sodium hydroxide (caustic soda). Ordinary
domestic bleach (as in bog cleaner) contains "surfactants" (whatever
they are - I think they are a kind of detergent), perfume, whatever
makes it thick so it sticks to the side of the bowl...

that's thickened bleach, not just bleach.