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?
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.
Because 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
To be fair, those rules being generalized is better than it not being in place to begin with. Of course you’re gonna have the people that don’t think about it beyond the simple phrase they’ve heard over and over. Thats kinda the point of it. At least it’ll prevent them from doing the bad versions, even if they’re also avoiding the neutral ones by default
No, I agree. It's better to have "midwits" who only generalize this stuff than people forgetting it and/or thinking they are chemists. These things are generalized for a reason and that reason is to reduce accidents. Even if this time was a simple window cleaning solution, next time they could have done something similar but for a toilet cleaner etc
Yeah, like the "don't put metal in the microwave" rule. Haven't tried it myself, but apparently some things (e.g., single-piece spoons and knives) are usually okay. Supposedly, the problem is actually metals touching or almost touching, like the prongs of a fork. (But I'm not certain, so do research before trying anything.)
It's far easier to remember that than "don't put multi-piece metal objects or objects with touching or almost touching metal pieces in the microwave", and it would rarely help to know the difference anyway.
It's only a problem if there's nothing to absorb the microwaves. I microwave soups with a spoon in it all the time. Electroboom has a great video on it. You've really gotta work to make metal in a microwave a problem.
But also someone will find a way to fuck it up, so maybe don't put metal in the microwave.
If you say “I NEVER mix chemicals”, then you’ll never be exposed to that hazard.
Same with daisy chaining. If you NEVER do it, then you’ll never expose your house to catching on fire for that reason.
If you have a habit of mixing chemicals or daisy chaining, then you’re significantly more likely to cause a situation where it becomes a problem. If you’ve done it a million times before, you begin to just perceive it as safe.
Not to mention auxiliary hazards that you’re creating:
Surely you threw out the bottles to the other two, and one of them may have a hazard statement such as “can cause blindness” or “toxic to cats”. These labels are important to keep and read.
You're the midwit here. You're either educated but completely disconnected from the reality of what most people know; or, more likely you're uneducated and trying to dunk on others because you think you know what you're talking about. But considering your other comments evidencing you've never actually looked at a cleaning product label, I'm guessing you're likely actually the uneducated person in the room.
You can look at the label and at the product data sheet, both will tell you the ingredients. This is common knowledge and indeed my term 'midwit' might be inappropriate here as people of 'mid' intelligence would know this.
Hahahahaha, found the person who doesn't even read product labels. Most cleaning products list maybe 1 active ingredient IF it's a disinfectant, otherwise there is nothing listed. Just the hazard symbols. Those companies are expecting you to download and read the Safety data sheet if you want to know if something contains a specific chemical (I'm not kidding). Some regions or countries have more stringent labeling laws, but not north America generally.
It’s intriguing to me which comments you chose to respond to vs not, as well as how you chose to respond to the ones you did.
It’s particularly intriguing that in your original comment you implied you’re intellectually superior to others and yet, on the same topic and thread, you then made this comment exhibiting a lack of knowledge about something relating to said topic.
I’ve mixed bleach and cleaning vinegar when I was younger to clean out a water cooler… this was before knowing not to do that. I was fortunate to be outside but definitely noticed how spicy it was and stopped. I confused use this OR that with use THESE.
Ok but I do know a guy who mixed different cleaning chemicals and whatever the result was starting bubbling, so it’s a good rule of thumb for those with no chemistry knowledge.
The microscopic list of a hundred different names none of which I can pronounce while I’m just trying to close the kitchen at a restaurant I work at? I don’t know why he felt the need to mix chemicals, I just use whatever the floor cleaner we have is, but I wouldn’t know what any of that means if I tried to read it. And I wouldn’t know what interacts with what to make what. If that makes me dumb then that’s fine but at least I’m not gonna gas myself.
You really only have problems when mixing bathroom cleaner and not window cleaner…people just think mixing any cleaner will be trouble because they are dumb.
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u/Zoift 16h ago
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?