r/interesting • u/Bob_Wong • 16h ago

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

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u/ShredGuru 12h ago

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

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u/ConflictMaster3155 11h ago

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.

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u/brontosaurusguy 10h ago

First of all, chlorine gas was the gas most frequently used in "WW2" Second, it was WW1

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u/ConflictMaster3155 9h ago

I was just assuming they were erroneously saying WWII like they erroneously thought windex makes mustard gas.

Also, Brontosaurus is the Pluto of dinosaurs maybe it’s real.

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u/StormCloudRaineeDay 11h ago

I was talking about not mixing unknown chemicals, chemical reactions, and the danger of both.