I Saw an Ad for "Oxyclean", Again, Wouldn't Pool Chlorine Do the Same Thing?

Question

In Particular, a Perchlorate Salt, is "Oxyxclean" Only Pool Chlorine?

I'm Sorry, riloh keen, Ithought it was a PerChlorate, What Are The Industril Uses of Sodium Per Carbonate?

Answer 1

Oxiclean is made from Sodium Carbonate (30 to 50%) and Sodium Percarbonate (50 to 70%). Pool chlorine is typically Sodium HypoChlorite. Pool chlorine will be more aggressive and go beyond removing just the stain, but will probably bleach the very item your are trying to clean.

There are other formulations for pool chlorine. But they have other ingredients that would likely be harmful to the surface being cleaned.

Answer 2

That ingredient is sodium percarbonate(C2H8Na4O12) dissociates into peroxides (HOOH for example.) The sanitizer in pools is hypochlorous acid (H-O-Cl) which dissociates into H+ and OCl-.

Both compounds will dissociate when added to water. The difference is that the peroxides are a much "gentler" bleaching compound. Pool sanitizer (if you've ever used it) will burn a lovely hole into your skin and utterly destroy your clothing (burns holes, destroys dyes.)

So the simple answer is, sure you could get a bleaching effect if you used pool chlorine, but you'd also have clothes with holes and white spots. But if you used an oxyclean type product (which also contains "whitener" dyes) your clothes would not be ruined.

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Answer 3

Pool chlorine is calcium hypochlorite, which would be different from an oxidizing perchlorate molecule. True, both are oxidizers, but I don't know if hypochlorite is color safe.

Answer 4

no, oxyclean is sodium percarbonate. when combined with water, it produces oxygen.

chlorine also leaves contaminating harmful residue, whereas sodium percarbonate is biodegradable, and breaks down into harmless oxygen, water, and natural soda ash.