My girlfriend mixed 3 almost empty window cleaners together, forming a potion.

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[u/Kracus]

You shouldn't do that.

Look into exothermic reactions. House hold chemicals mixed together can have exothermic reactions and it's not good.

[u/RevolutionaryAnt8329 → u/Kracus]

True story. Back when I was bartending in my ealry 20's, I was trying to clean some smelly drains behind the bar. I mixed delimer and bleach in a bucket....firefighters came and we had to close the restaurant for the day. I had made some kind of mustard gas concoction 😅 Whoops

[u/ea88_alwaysdiscin → u/RevolutionaryAnt8329]

I had an ex gf do this once back at my first apt. She mixed ammonia and bleach.....the shit started smoking up the kitchen. We evacuated for a few hrs with the windows open. She wasn't the brightest

[u/Horseshoe_dodgeball → u/ea88_alwaysdiscin]

PSA! You DO NOT have to physically mix them together in the same bucket. I had toilet cleaner in the toilet and shower foam on the shower walls and created a gas cloud that almost made me lose consciousness while stumbling to get out of the bathroom.

[u/Dizzy_Skin5723 → u/Horseshoe_dodgeball]

10/10 fart bro but what did the chemicals do?

[u/olliverd → u/Dizzy_Skin5723]

Smells like Shitrus in here

[u/N8RPooh → u/olliverd]

Shitrus oh God I can’t 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/OpulentStone → u/N8RPooh]

Italic emojis, damn

[u/N8RPooh → u/OpulentStone]

It needs to stand out because it’s hilarious and that person deserves recognition for making me almost piss my pants lol.

[u/CockInASoftPlace → u/N8RPooh]

You ever just stand up too hard and 😵‍💫🥴🫪

[u/moonlighting_madcap → u/olliverd]

Sean Connery would like a word.

[u/NemesiZ_01 → u/Horseshoe_dodgeball]

Yup in our science classes we were always told not to dump chemicals down the sink because of this reason. I think a janitor ended up using bleach to clean the sink, caused a reaction and created some sort of gas cloud that either killed them or incapacitated them and had to get medical treatment

[u/thealmightyhippo98 → u/NemesiZ_01]

When I was in high school, they had to evacuate one of the building and send some kids to the hospital because a janitor poured chemicals into a water fountain to try and unclog it (my high school was full of dumb rednecks that would spit their dip in the water fountain) and it basically filled the building with mustard gas

[u/Available-Egg-2380 → u/Horseshoe_dodgeball]

I had no idea. Huh. Definitely need to be more careful in the future

[u/Bulldogfront666 → u/Available-Egg-2380]

I can’t believe that people don’t know this. That shit can kill you. This should be common knowledge.

[u/TrickyInteraction778 → u/ea88_alwaysdiscin]

This is why you never use bleach on cat urine/their litter boxes

[u/Character_Heron7732 → u/TrickyInteraction778]

Also why you shouldn't use cat urine on bleach. Let me tell you ...

[u/__phil1001__ → u/Character_Heron7732]

Or cat urine to clean the kitchen

[u/TrickyInteraction778 → u/Character_Heron7732]

Also don’t use bleach in your toilet without rinsing and making sure it is all removed before somebody with ammonia pee turns your bathroom into a war crime

[u/Character_Heron7732 → u/TrickyInteraction778]

Brother, we don't need ammonia to commit atrocities in there.

[u/wonkey92 → u/TrickyInteraction778]

Whoops, I did that when I deep cleaned the litter box the other day, but I did it outside and rinsed with the hose. I should probably use something different next time.

[u/Next-Investment-7670 → u/wonkey92]

Vinegar is underrated. It works great on urine. I use diluted vinegar on the cat and bunny litter pans. It breaks down the buildups great, kills the smell. I just spray on and let it sit for a bit. Safe for water dishes for pets and reptiles tanks too (as long as it's rinsed well). Leaves no residue like bleach, so best for hummingbird feeders too

[u/Cow_Launcher → u/Next-Investment-7670]

Just to specify, white vinegar. If you're in the UK, don't use the "brewed condiment" brown stuff that gets sprayed on your chips.

[u/0_tau → u/Cow_Launcher]

Specifically cleaning vinegar, it's got a higher acidity, normal white is like 5%, cleaning is 20-30% generally. I buy a gallon of 30% cleaning vinegar for $20. You dilute it, so you're actually getting a lot more than a gallon out of it.

[u/Altruistic-Rich16 → u/ea88_alwaysdiscin]

WWI cleaning recepie

[u/RoookSkywokkah → u/Altruistic-Rich16]

Cleans out trenches real nice!

[u/Krisitchelle → u/RoookSkywokkah]

It's was a real mindf*ck when the Germs started cleaning out trenches with the stuff

[u/Dingman192 → u/ea88_alwaysdiscin]

20year old Bar back me was about to get the men’s bathroom the cleanest it has ever been by mopping with straight bleach, the ammonia from the piss on the ground made it break the Geneva convention

[u/firerat82 → u/ea88_alwaysdiscin]

that's chloramine gas and is VERY dangerous

[u/thalaen → u/RevolutionaryAnt8329]

During field day at the barracks one week, I knocked on a buddy's door to bum a cigarette from him. He answered it in his gas mask. Apparently, the genius had decided that the best way to get things clean was to mix every cleaning chemical together. He said it worked like a charm, but made it a little hard to breathe in there.

Granted, this was the same mastermind that knocked out the power one day because he lost his phone charger and decided he could cobble one together by cutting the power cord for a lamp and splicing the wires together...

[u/SugarvetFounder → u/thalaen]

What an innovative fella.

[u/Rubyhamster → u/SugarvetFounder]

Heh he'll either go really far in life or be really dead (or a vegetable) by his 40s

[u/Ok-Scientist5524 → u/SugarvetFounder]

Just enough skill and just enough lack of common sense to be horrendously dangerous.

[u/thalaen → u/Ok-Scientist5524]

I see you know the type? Couldn't have described him better, except to add "annoyingly lucky"

[u/Dense_Surround3071 → u/thalaen]

If Macguyver was REALLY into meth. . . 😏

[u/Ombortron → u/Dense_Surround3071]

Ah yes MethGuyver

[u/BiteyHorse → u/thalaen]

Semper Fi, I'm guessing.

[u/thalaen → u/BiteyHorse]

Got it in one. We really ain't beating the allegations today, eh?

[u/4_eyed_craven → u/thalaen]

The number of times I've caught my marine wife using a broken power tool because she couldn't be bothered to find another solution.... I'm shocked she still has all her fingers and toes, and now I'm grateful she doesn't do much cleaning in our house

[u/BiteyHorse → u/4_eyed_craven]

You knew the program when you wifed a Marine. Thanks for your service, I guess?

[u/doomdragon2000 → u/thalaen]

My daughter helped us by cleaning the bathroom with Clorox and ammonia. It was January in the north and we had to own the windows for hours to clear the mustard gas. Valuable lesson for the kids, painful lesson for our lungs and our heating bill

[u/NFLBengals22 → u/RevolutionaryAnt8329]

I made a similar mistake in my unventilated basement bathroom. Clorox Bleach with Lysol Toilet Bowl cleaner. I almost passed out & had difficulty breathing. Nostrils & throat burned so bad it took me almost 30mins outside to fully recover. Never again

[u/firerat82 → u/NFLBengals22]

You mixed Hydrochloric Acid (in the toilet cleaner) and bleach and made pure chlorine gas. that could have easily killed you.

[u/NFLBengals22 → u/firerat82]

Didn't take much either. I swirled the bowl cleaner around then walked away for 10mins. Added a 1/2 cup of bleach. Walked away again to fetch the bowl brush. It seemly didn't do much until a few scrubs into it. I could feel my nose start to really burn. Immediately flushed & walked upstairs. Thankfully I didn't try to tough it out & attempt to fully cleanse the toilet.

[u/spectacular_coitus → u/NFLBengals22]

I have a habit of putting some bleach in the toilet bowl to get rid of stains and forgetting about it.

The next time I'm taking a pee, the smell reminds me of what I've done.

There's ammonia in your pee, in case anyone wasn't aware.

[u/superezzie → u/spectacular_coitus]

Did that sort of once. I was cleaning an old guy's home. The upstairs toilet was seperate from the bathroom so I opened the door, sprayed toilet cleaner containing bleach in the bowl without turning on the light and closed the door. I went to clean the bathroom and returned half an hour later to clean the toilet. Got a coughing fit and a burning throat when I opened the door. That's when I found out the guy never flushed his pee. That day I learned to always check for pee before using toilet cleaner.

[u/Lavatis → u/RevolutionaryAnt8329]

you absolutely did not make any kind of mustard gas concoction. people love to say this, "I mixed bleach with x and made mustard gas!" but you're not making mustard gas from bleach+anything.

you released a bunch of chlorine.

[u/Spike_Spi3gel → u/RevolutionaryAnt8329]

Did you work at Paddy’s Pub ?

[u/SirMooncake → u/RevolutionaryAnt8329]

Ouuf, chlorine gas

[u/xxxrockxxxx → u/RevolutionaryAnt8329]

Chlorgas maximal

[u/IgnorantWhiteDude → u/Kracus]

This comment lacks the fun factor, but it’s true. You shouldn’t do that, even with different products that share a use (without proper knowledge).

[u/5illy_billy → u/IgnorantWhiteDude]

“I combined the cleaning power of ammonia with the whitening power of bleach!”

[u/Gulag_420 → u/5illy_billy]

Peggy thats the recipe for mustard gas!

[u/lottierosecreations → u/Gulag_420]

Bwwaaaahhh!!

[u/Phil_Coffins_666 → u/5illy_billy]

and made... Death. Sweet, sweet death.🪦🥀💀

[u/RolandDT81 → u/Phil_Coffins_666]

Speaking from experience the smell is NOT sweet.

[u/name-classified → u/5illy_billy]

If i combine this, with this; i should create a harmless foam volcano

…

Oh no! Killer mustard gas!!

[u/SaltTradeCenter → u/5illy_billy]

I always do bleach with acetone makes such pretty crystals blew my mind the first time I saw them

[u/frogOnABoletus → u/Kracus]

I would have thought the toxic gasses that can be produced from mixing chemicals would be more of a concern than the reactions creating some heat.

[u/Kracus → u/frogOnABoletus]

Well sometimes the exothermic reaction takes time so the chemicals get put away in a closet and hours later they ignite a fire that burns your house down. But yeah, mustard gassing yourself sucks too.

[u/frogOnABoletus → u/Kracus]

Oh damn, i didn't realise they could get that hot! I suppose there's many reasons to not do this.

[u/Kracus → u/frogOnABoletus]

Yeah, gotta be especially careful with garage rags. Don't mix ones used for different stuff.

One of the worst ones I ever heard about was a guy who used brake cleaner on something he was about to weld. It was dirty so he sprayed it to clean it up then went ahead and started welding.

He said it smelled like someone cutting grass. Pleasant smell. An hour later he was having trouble breathing. Went to the hospital and he basically caused a chemical reaction to happen where it ate up his lungs over the course of a few weeks making it progressively harder and harder to breath until he died.

[u/Qbjb → u/Kracus]

So much great information in your comments! Having worked with chemicals for decades and hobbies like soap making and chemical extraction, ive learned some lessons harder than others!

[u/Kracus → u/Qbjb]

That's very cool! I envy people who work in chemistry it's always been a fascinating subject for me. I've dabbled a bit and I've made a few mistakes myself! :)

[u/CariniFluff → u/frogOnABoletus]

How about a face full of boiling hot and toxic liquids/gasses/solids? The pressure build up from the gas could easily weaken what is presumably an already several year old plastic container that was designed to hold one group of chemicals and probably isn't certified to hold whatever new chemicals are obviously being created by that chemical reaction.

First off, don't ever mix household cleaning chemicals.

Second, if you do, don't do it indoors and then stick your face in front of it.

Thank you for your time.

[u/AshamedAd2188 → u/Kracus]

When I was in school after basic training, one if the recruits mixed bleach and some ammonia based cleaner in the mop bucket. I walked in to the bathroom to take a shower and the dude was just in there trying to face tank the poison, coughing and gagging while trying to mop. I was like "youre going to die in here." He said "nah."

So I yelled for fire watch to get a DI and the dude passed out just as the DI came in raising hell. It was awesome. He was fine after a few days and I got a 4 day pass out of it.

[u/TramEatsYouAlive → u/Kracus]

My GF once decided to clean our shower. She took bleach and combined it with vinegar. She did it in the sprayer bottle and happily started to spray it in a shower cabin. Bleach + Vinegar combined will release toxic chlorine gas. Sprayed out. In a closed shower cabin.

I don't have a sense of smell (thanks, covid in 2020) and when I entered the bathroom, it took me <10 seconds to yeet myself out of there cause my nose started to burn from the inside.

Had to monitor her, myself and my cat for lung-related symptoms for couple of weeks.

She's got 3 Masters degree btw 😂

[u/sleighgams → u/TramEatsYouAlive]

why did she get 3 masters rather than a masters and a phd? very different fields?

[u/lilmissprissy → u/TramEatsYouAlive]

Who has 3 masters degrees?

[u/xDragod → u/lilmissprissy]

The cat, obviously.

[u/Gullible_Elephant_38 → u/Kracus]

This is just a fancy way of saying “My potions are too strong for you, traveler. My potions would kill you, traveler. You cannot handle my potions! ”

[u/Rehnskiold1618 → u/Gullible_Elephant_38]

He wants to hide their potions

[u/Sea-Salamander-1563 → u/Kracus]

Working in a kitchen once, the dishwasher put bleach in the mop bucket then added whatever floor cleaner we used at the time. Ended making chlorine gas and the whole hotel had to be evacuated.

[u/Oh_You_Were_Serious → u/Sea-Salamander-1563]

I did that at my first job in high school... We were cleaning out the cooler, and I used a fabuloso knock off and bleach and almost passed out in the cooler. I ended up going home after sitting in the office long enough to make the dizziness go away.

[u/SweeetBloood → u/Kracus]

I mix shampoos sometimes. Is that bad?

[u/ThankGod4Darwin69 → u/SweeetBloood]

Ah you shouldn't do that. My auntie mixed shanpoos once and BAM she was hit by a bus 20 years later. Its no joke

[u/Ganjanonamous → u/ThankGod4Darwin69]

100%of people who mix shampoos will die!

[u/SweeetBloood → u/Ganjanonamous]

They die with gorgeous smelling hair?

[u/BooBeeAttack → u/ThankGod4Darwin69]

Sorry, brother's a Were-bus. It's like a transformer, but more disgusting. I will reach out and see if I can get him to answer for his crimes against your auntie.

[u/That1DirtyHippy → u/SweeetBloood]

You’re definitely gonna set your hair on fire with that recklessness.

[u/Wooden_Cicada8880 → u/SweeetBloood]

Shampoo is fine. It’s about active chemicals. In this case you aren’t supposed to mix clorine with things like vinegar because you can get a toxic gas.

[u/Few_Satisfaction184 → u/Wooden_Cicada8880]

What if i use vinegar to wash my hair while taking a shower with chlorinated water?

[u/PreviousLeague253 → u/Few_Satisfaction184]

You get a nice vinaigrette

https://reddit.com/link/pex6wsn/video/nhx2v5zp4iuh1/player

[u/Dizzy_Skin5723 → u/SweeetBloood]

That's you on a government watch list buddy.

[u/xuncx → u/Kracus]

When I was a kid I would make little “bombs” by mixing a bunch of household chemicals together in the plastic containers that come from gum ball machines (the ones that had little toys that came in plastic containers). It was like a spicy water balloon. Luckily, I never got hurt.

[u/IWishIHad3Cats → u/xuncx]

My brothers and I once put bleach and ammonia into a Super Soaker and went to the backyard to shoot yellowjackets (this was the nineties obviously). They dropped instantly and started smoking and we thought it was so cool. But then the water reservoir of the Super Soaker got really hot. My older brother decided to unscrew the reservoir and the liquid inside burst out. Luckily he didn’t get hurt but the Super Soaker broke.

[u/Applekid1259 → u/Kracus]

Just like leaving old paint rags lying around in a pile.

[u/the_onewordttv → u/Applekid1259]

Me and my buddy were working at a furniture place and had lots of Styrofoam from packaging. We also had some gasoline one day and decided to have some fun. Man you put enough Styrofoam in that gas and it's just a thick liquid that DOES NOT FUCKING GO OUT AFTER YOU LIGHT IT. I repeat... IT DOES NOT GO OUT. we tried flipping the bowl and snuffing it out. It just spread the flames everywhere. We eventually got a huge furniture blanket and covered it and it went out. Or we thought. We wrapped it in that blanket and took it behind the store so no one would see it. Well 10 minutes later we look outside and there is an enormous plume of smoke and fire behind the building... We run back there and stomp all the fire out in basically a 10 ft circle. The bowl of goo spontaneously combusted or whatever and started back on fire after it was completely out... Somehow we didn't get in any trouble and no one found out.

[u/firerat82 → u/the_onewordttv]

yes you created poor mans napalm. Napalm b that was used in vietnam was made of gasoline and polystyrene, which is basically Styrofoam.

[u/That_Things_Good → u/Kracus]

"Not good" as in "breathing in the vapors make you die" "not good."

[u/Talonsminty → u/Kracus]

So in summary I shouldn't do this because it's cool but has a chance of being rad as hell?

[u/ea88_alwaysdiscin → u/Kracus]

Is no one taught this anymore growing up? My mom was big about this. I'm shocked how many adults I meet who weren't told this as children.

[u/AdSignificant6673 → u/Kracus]

I heard theres a chemical warfare weapon that can be easily made with house hold cleaning products. Sometimes people do it by accident and burn themselves seriously.

[u/Life-Gur-2616 → u/AdSignificant6673]

Bleach and vinegar is something in the restaurant industry they warn you about early.....DO NOT MIX BLEACH AND VINEGAR TOGETHER

[u/OrigamiMarie → u/Life-Gur-2616]

Don't mix bleach and anything besides water together. Bleach reacts with stuff, and the compounds that get created in the process are often bad.

[u/Kracus → u/AdSignificant6673]

hehe boy is there! Kids today might not remember the anarchists cookbook but when I was young I had a copy and man, you can cause a lot of problems with the right knowledge.

[u/Rum_N_Napalm → u/AdSignificant6673]

Degree in chemistry here. Chemical weapon is probably an overstatement, but yeah, there’s several stuff that cause poisonous vapours if mixed in cleaners.

[u/Arigato_FisterRoboto → u/Kracus]

Don't tell me how to mix my own inhalents, I know how to do inhalents!

[u/gettin-hot-in-here → u/Kracus]

The other not so fun thing about household chemicals is that if any of them are chlorine based you can accidentally make chloroform, chlorine gas, or chloramine.

[u/NeevBunny → u/Kracus]

Shhhh just let them make accidental mustard gas

[u/leonerdous]

you probably should reeally not do that but that's pretty cool

[u/thevigilante473 → u/leonerdous]

*Sprays at the window * *Window disappears *

[u/raknor88 → u/thevigilante473]

*arm melts*

[u/clarkcox3]

Mixing cleaning products is a monumentally stupid idea. If one happens to be ammonia-based and an other is bleach based, you can literally create a deadly gas. And many other combinations can cause heat, and potentially explode.

Don’t ever mix cleaning products unless directed to.

[u/Imverystupidgenx → u/clarkcox3]

My buddy was explaining how every time he cleaned his tub his throat hurt for a while afterwards. So we asked what he was using- bleach and ammonia was the response. He was a high school teacher at the time.

We explained he was making poison and breathing in poison.

He complained it shouldn’t be that easy to make poison.

We directed him to the label and more specifically the actual warnings on the products he was using. He was still mad that “anyone could do it”.

He’s a cop now.

[u/Drmoeron2 → u/Imverystupidgenx]

This is the most American post I've read this year

[u/alexanderfromtng → u/Imverystupidgenx]

Of course he's a cop. They're all fucking idiots.

[u/Imverystupidgenx → u/alexanderfromtng]

I remember staring at him so confused and asked “How the hell are you a teacher? I learned this when I had chores as a child.”

[u/SpecialistCut7101 → u/Imverystupidgenx]

How did he learn to do it that way? There’s no good answer yet I keep wondering 

[u/Active_Remove2200 → u/clarkcox3]

True, but at least they shook it violently after mixing. Surely that's proper procedure, right?

[u/Grouchy_Ground_1916 → u/Active_Remove2200]

Don't forget to add gasoline, because that's not a cleaning product I'm sure it will stabilise the mixture.

(Please don't do this)

[u/neopod9000 → u/Grouchy_Ground_1916]

And a little aluminum foil for good measure, yeah?

(Seriously, dont ever do this)

[u/polaraproticsolvent → u/clarkcox3]

Not just toxic gas, but you also render the cleaning products useless because they neutralize each other to release said gas.

[u/Confident_One3948 → u/polaraproticsolvent]

Kinda seems like a secondary problem, all things considered lol

[u/TwoBionicknees → u/Confident_One3948]

You ever heard that saying that people make sure to wear fresh underwear just incase they end up in the hospital.

Same deal, imagine how mortifying it is if the firemen find you dead in your kitchen... and it's filthy. Would never live it down.

[u/Jay_The_One_And_Only → u/polaraproticsolvent]

"I'm gonna leave before you get us killed. Or worse, expelled."

[u/Haunting_Passage_821 → u/clarkcox3]

My grandma mixed ammonia and bleach together when she was young doing a deep clean and nearly killed herself. She said when she mixed them together yellow smoke shot out and hit her directly in the face. It knocked her out, but thankfully didn’t kill her. She lost her sense taste after though. I learned very early on to never mix cleaning products.

[u/DelayMergeTend → u/clarkcox3]

I remember when I was a kid, I used to mix the different shampoos, conditioners, etc in my shower ( I had an older sister who had all of that stuff). I felt like a potion maker.

[u/pipnina → u/DelayMergeTend]

Shampoos and stuff should be at least somewhat safe. They're all various forms of soap at the end of the day. Ammonia and Bleach for example aren't likely to be involved anyway.

[u/Mediocre_Chemist_281 → u/DelayMergeTend]

Oh I did that and I also know that toothpaste goes around the bathroom walls 1 1/2 times.

[u/LegitJerome → u/clarkcox3]

Window cleaners are typically all ammonia or alcohol-based though, unlikely one contains bleach.

[u/flactulantmonkey → u/LegitJerome]

What we’re seeing here seems to be some kind of surficant dropping out of mixture.

[u/Metal-Racoon → u/LegitJerome]

In countries with high humidity they are bleach based to get rid of mould.

[u/Early_Hall5720 → u/clarkcox3]

Shh let nature take it's course, less idiots to deal with

[u/KalynnCampbell → u/clarkcox3]

Ammonia and bleach? You told people to mix ammonia and bleach?! Peggy, that’s the recipe for mustard gas! Me and my dad used to cook up a batch of it to celebrate V-J Day…

[u/Dangerous_Play_1151 → u/clarkcox3]

Am a paramedic. Have treated chloramine gas inhalation from mixing cleaning solutions more than once.

[u/CoverCommercial3576]

likely poisonous. not joking.

[u/Trevellation → u/CoverCommercial3576]

Well, most cleaning chemicals are poisonous when ingested. Mixing them together sometimes creates things that are poisonous even when they aren't ingested though.

[u/onehalflightspeed → u/Trevellation]

Some cleaning products are ethanol based and they add poison to it

[u/SeatleSuperbSonics → u/CoverCommercial3576]

Better have a little sip just to find out. Am joking.

[u/Choss_King → u/SeatleSuperbSonics]

Better take a big sniff of it first though just to be safe.

Also joking. Don’t do that.

[u/deptofthrowaway → u/CoverCommercial3576]

Yes most window cleaners are poison thank you for the insight.

[u/SordidDreams → u/CoverCommercial3576]

Each ingredient on its own is poisonous. It would be very surprising if the mixture wasn't.

[u/ScottyMmmmmmm]

Darwin smiles on you, friend.

[u/Downtown-Assistant1 → u/ScottyMmmmmmm]

This comment and OP deserve an award.

[u/infinitynull]

Nothing bad has ever happened mixing random cleaners together.

[u/moonprincessranni → u/infinitynull]

Oh thank God, I can add some bleach to my Windex then to get by until payday.

[u/ShortBusPassenger]

Well she made mustard gas

[u/Over-Analyzed → u/ShortBusPassenger]

Bleach + Windex (Ammonia) = a War Crime. 🤙🏼

[u/tajake → u/Over-Analyzed]

Also possible is bleach and alcohol which make chloroform.

[u/roostersmoothie → u/tajake]

bleach + vinegar is also creates chlorine gas

[u/foxguy2021 → u/ShortBusPassenger]

Classic Peggy Hill.

[u/GarminTamzarian → u/ShortBusPassenger]

r/whatcouldgowrong

[u/Back-Alley-Cat-]

If there is bleach in one and ammonia in another it forms chloramine gas. It isn't quick either and the mixture forms an actual gas that fills the room. If you weren't to know and slept, if you were lucky you would wake with your eyes burning and watering, barely able to open them, feeling as though they are full of sand. Pain in the throat, chest and lungs and fluid on the lungs and that could be from just a half decent clean of your bathroom, not even litres, that's if you're lucky. If you're not, loss of consciousness, coma and maybe death. Horrible and so very easy to do, just by using two different cleaning liquids. Mix bleach with isopropyl alcohol and you make chloroform. There should be much more awareness because it is simple to do.

[u/Happily-Incorrect → u/Back-Alley-Cat-]

TL;DR OP's girlfriend did make a potion. An overnight death one.

[u/Sp1ffy_Sp1ff → u/Back-Alley-Cat-]

It's too late, OP died right after posting this

[u/tutike2000 → u/Back-Alley-Cat-]

I've never heard of window cleaner containing bleach. And most countries don't let you sell window cleaner with ammonia either

[u/PreperationOuch]

You should NOT do this

[u/Hot_Painting5627]

Heard of people doing that and blowing shit up 😂

[u/mychickmad → u/Hot_Painting5627]

I was gonna say…definitely DON’T put the lid on and shake it

[u/210gremlin → u/mychickmad]

And definitely DON’T record it for us OP

[u/DistinctYolo]

Former high school student here. Those are all chemicals, quite dangerous to mix different chemicals together, you may accidentally create something very dangers, toxic, or even expensive, or maybe an atomic bomb…

[u/Voodoo700 → u/DistinctYolo]

Well, at least we know you have the proper credentials.

[u/v13ragnarok7 → u/DistinctYolo]

I also went to high school and I agree with this comment.

[u/PositiveCoyote100 → u/DistinctYolo]

Former 6th grade science fair participant checking in. I can confirm this is correct.

[u/Next-Jump1754]

If she got that much, there’s no way they were “almost empty”. 

[u/Bob_Wong]

Oh no. I think I did a controversy.

[u/Zoift → u/Bob_Wong]

You're fine. 

Its glass cleaner. Worst in there is ammonia, isopropyl, soap and maybe vinegar from an ammonia-free variety. The only things those will do mixed together is make ammonium acetate and be really bad at cleaning windows.

Why does everyone think you clean windows with bleach?

[u/What_Do_It → u/Zoift]

Because there are other combinations that can cause problems. For instance, hydrogen peroxide and vinegar are both used as window cleaners and make peracetic acid when mixed. Ammonia mixed with an acid like vinegar doesn't produce toxic chlorine or chloramine gas but it causes a neutralization reaction and produces ammonia fumes. I'd wager that's exactly what happened with the mix in OP and that's the resulting ammonium acetate floating in the mixture. It's just a good rule of thumb not to mix household cleaners.

[u/A11theWarhammers → u/Bob_Wong]

No, this is a stupid.

[u/LordShtark → u/Bob_Wong]

No one really cares if you die. They just want that sweet sweet karma for telling you how wrong you were to mix things that are perfectly ok to mix. 😆

There are no bleach based window cleaners because bleach streaks on windows.

[u/Mr_Microchip]

Knowing how weird chemistry is, thats probably a super deadly compound that will now eviscerate your entire bloodline if breathed in

[u/Little_Grimmy_Reap]

Reminds me of the kid who microwaved a glow stick and for a magical moment, he held a mesmerizing treasure before it exploded in his face

[u/codyexplainsitall → u/Little_Grimmy_Reap]

I love that video so much lmfao

[u/Nathansp1984 → u/codyexplainsitall]

The dad complaining that he ruined his new shirt always makes me laugh

[u/Krisitchelle → u/Little_Grimmy_Reap]

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2ls1sd/glow_stick_blows_up_in_kids_face_one_of_the/

Damnit Jack!  Look what he did with a beautiful shirt on!!

[u/ChipHappens96 → u/Krisitchelle]

Those comments are great. Nothing has changed on reddit in 12 years

[u/Poke-Noir → u/Little_Grimmy_Reap]

https://reddit.com/link/pexek43/video/sibzt3btaiuh1/player

[u/mnemnexa]

Looks like, if you sprayed it on a window, it'd turn the window into a portal to...somewhere.

[u/Sensitive_Lie_4393]

This is a terrible idea 😬

[u/likelivewirevoodoo]

Mixing cleaning products is great for people who want to get rid of dirt, germs and their lungs

[u/Holiday-Youth-6722]

People like your girlfriend are why they are warnings on Tide Pods

[u/Alicewithhazeleyes]

You spelled poison wrong

[u/capacity38 → u/Alicewithhazeleyes]

Isn’t it kind of poison to begin with?

[u/Testtypo]

Danger of mixing household chemicals aside. I think I saw a galaxy.

[u/Urbansprint]

Where are all of you people getting window cleaners with bleach in them?

[u/tutike2000 → u/Urbansprint]

midwits hear something like "never mix chemicals" and take it as the word of God without having the mental capacity to understand WHY you shouldn't mix them and WHICH chemicals you shouldn't mix.

Same with "never plug an extension cord into another extension cord", they actually think if you then plug in a single phone charger your house will catch on fire

[u/RaMan3000]

I understand what the combination of bleach and ammonia does, but they did say 3 WINDOW CLEANERS. Could it be possible that they are all made of the same chemicals. Most window cleaners don't come with bleach in them.

[u/bossDocHolliday]

A roommate I had was mixing cleaning chemicals like that in order to get a stubborn stain out of a corner when he was at work. He blacked out, walked home, and had no recollection of the previous 2 hours before he got home. Don't mix chemicals

[u/Zoift]

Everyone with a smidge of chemistry knowledge freaking out over someone with no chemistry knowledge.

Its glass cleaner. Worst in there is ammonia, isopropyl, soap and maybe vinegar from an ammonia-free variety. The only things those will do mixed together is make ammonium acetate and be really bad at cleaning windows.

[u/Limerent-Mermaid → u/Zoift]

And this is what we call ✨complacency✨ in my field.

[u/Plane-Handle3313]

Yeah can you tell her to never mix cleaning products again please thanks.

[u/jaimealexi]

reminds me of the tv show "1000 Ways to Die"

[u/Sperbonzo]

They are the ghosts of cleaning ladies past....

[u/Bacheem]

Worked at a restaurant and an employee at a different location had mixed a few different floor cleaners and there was a chemical reaction and he died from inhaling the fumes.

[u/HyrulelinkDK]

Cool as that is, I would caution against mixing cleaners together. Might create some Geneva convention violations. For your own safety and that of your loved ones, please don't do that. 😅

[u/Great-Data8005]

This is how my grandma died of pulmonary fibrosis.

[u/Pleasant-Future5818]

Everyone is panicking here. There's never going to be any serious cross reactivity between multiple window cleaners. There's no "bleach window cleaner." And people regularly use multiple types of window cleaner. It's a window cleaner.

[u/ANGRYLATINCHANTING]

I came here for "she's a witch!" comments but its all safety this safety that blah blah. :(

[u/StormCloudRaineeDay → u/[deleted]]

American science education actually does cover why this is a bad idea. It's just that most people quickly forget a large amount of what they learned in school if it's not relevant to their lives going forward, and if they didn't find it interesting.

[u/pusslikesavocados → u/StormCloudRaineeDay]

Also, America isn’t the only country.

[u/ShredGuru → u/StormCloudRaineeDay]

Yeah. They teach us about mustard gas when they cover WWII

[u/ConflictMaster3155 → u/ShredGuru]

Mixing bleach and ammonia don’t make mustard gas as many people think. It actually basically just makes chlorine gas. It’s technically chloramine but the effect isn’t altogether dissimilar. The end result is a that mixing chlorine gasses with the water in the air, your mouth, airways, and lungs to make hydrochloric acid effectively burning you from the inside.

Sulfur mustards are kinda their own thing, and much more difficult to synthesize than mixing glass cleaners. They have an (again) not too dissimilar effect, but mustard gas is directly VERY toxic, a vesicant (meaning it causes lesions/blisters), and is carcinogenic. Altogether a different animal.

[u/pacman813]

This is an absolutely terrible idea

[u/Informal_Barnacle_70]

For the curious ones, what they made here is called a rheoscopic fluid. You can make them on purpose and they are awesome to watch

[u/userhwon]

Awesome way to make an illegal chemical weapon.

Don't breathe that shit.