why is it bad to mix amonia and bleach to clean my bathroom??

Question

i was wondering why is it so bad???is it really that harmfull??

Answer 1

The combination puts off a gas..very harmful when inhaled!

Answer 2

Well, in strong enough strengths, the 2 cleaners will create ammonium chloride, which is used as a poison, to kill those on deathrow, unwanted animals, etc...

You can dilute the liquid with water, but there really is no reason to use both chemicals at the same time. It wont make anything any more cleaner, than just using a chlorine bleach/water mix. No sense in taking chances, unless you just like the rush of brain cells dying.

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Answer 3

That warning is there to protect you. Household bleach has a chemical formula of NaOCl - that is, one atom each of sodium, oxygen, and chlorine. Its chemical name, for the curious, is sodium hypochlorite. Ammonia has a chemical formula of NH3, that is, one atom of nitrogen and three atoms of hydrogen. When these two compounds are combined, the following reaction takes place:

2(parts)NaOCl + 2NH3 --> 2NaONH3 + Cl2.

Do you see that Cl2 on the right hand side there? This means one part chlorine gas, made up of diatomic (two atom) molecules. It also means that the chlorine gas has been liberated from the bleach, and is quite capable of causing you harm when inhaled!in small doses can cause irritation to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract.

In large doses, it can kill. Chlorine gas, also known as mustard gas, was actually used in WWI & WWII.

Answer 4

The fumes can be toxic! Look it up on line, you will see many cases of people dying from mixing the two. I accidently mixed dawn dish detergent and bleach one time, and the smell was horrible, as was the burning sensation in my eyes and nose and throat.

Answer 5

The mixture makes a gas called chlorine, yes good for the pool but bad for the health. Similar to the mustard gas used in WW2.

Answer 6

Danger, don't mix it could kill you!

That warning is there to protect you. Household bleach has a chemical formula of NaOCl - that is, one atom each of sodium, oxygen, and chlorine. Its chemical name, for the curious, is sodium hypochlorite. Ammonia has a chemical formula of NH3, that is, one atom of nitrogen and three atoms of hydrogen. When these two compounds are combined, the following reaction takes place:

2(parts)NaOCl + 2NH3 --> 2NaONH3 + Cl2.

Do you see that Cl2 on the right hand side there? This means one part chlorine gas, made up of diatomic (two atom) molecules. It also means that the chlorine gas has been liberated from the bleach, and is quite capable of causing you harm when inhaled!

The Pain! The Pain!

To understand the effects chlorine gas has on the body, we first need to understand the chemical properties of chlorine, particularly its valence, or number of chemical bonds chlorine can form. Chlorine is in the seventh of the traditional groups of elements, one before the group of inert gases, which, as their name suggests, are almost completely unreactive. Chlorine has seven electrons in its outer electron shell.

The Octet Rule states that all elements try to fill in their outer electron shell until they have eight electrons. When a chemical has eight electrons in its outer shell, it is then stable. Being so close to having 8 electrons in its outer shell, chlorine is quite desperate to get that one last electron - and will literally rip other atoms apart to do so. This is what happens to your respiratory system when you inhale chlorine gas. The gas tears into your nasal passages, trachea, and lungs by causing massive cellular damage. Obviously, chlorine gas causes a very painful death.




Nitrogen Trichloride (NCl3)

Another potential reaction, which occurs when a greater amount of bleach is added than ammonia, is this:

3NaOCl + NH3 --> 3NaOH + NCl3

That's sodium hydroxide and nitrogen trichloride. Nitrogen trichloride is a very toxic chemical to humans, and even if you did get close enough to ingest it, it would probably explode in your face first, as it is also a very volatile explosive. There is little necessity in explaining why that is bad.




Hydrazine (N2H4)

Still another reaction - in three parts this time - can occur, producing hydrazine (N2H4, a component of rocket fuel) if you have more ammonia than bleach:

NH3 + NaOCl --> NaOH + NH2Cl.

These two products then react with ammonia as follows:

NH3 + NH2Cl + NaOH -->N2H4 + NaCl + H2O.

One last reaction occurs to stabilise the reagents:

2NH2Cl + N2H4 --> 2 NH4Cl + N2.

This last equation is of particular interest because of the amount of heat it produces. The heat is so great that it usually leads to an explosion.




Danger!

As mentioned before, this article mentions some very dangerous chemicals. One should not ever, ever attempt to create the chemicals described above as it could result in injury or even death

Answer 7

Absolutely. The combination of the two creates toxic fumes that can be very harmful. Use one or the other but not both together.

Answer 8

Very Harmful!!! It will put off toxic fumes, never mix bleach or ammonia with anything other than water. And of course you can use bleach with your laundry detergent.:)

Answer 9

Yes if you mix ammonia and bleach together you create ammonia-chloride which the gas is toxic.Don't even mix ammonia and comet you will get the same result

Answer 10

You release the chlorine from the solution, Creating a small toxic clould. And since chlorine gas can kill you, it's not a good idea.

Answer 11

When the 2 mix, it causes toxic gasses to go into the air. It could be very harmful and even kill you if you breathe it in.