my chem teacher told me that because battery acid is an acid and drano is a base that if you mix them it is drinkable
2007-11-07 10:36:11 · 4 answers · asked by jrobuck13 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
While the pH of such a mixture might be in a more tolerable range (5 - 9, water = 7.0 pH), I am not sure that the produced salt: sodium sulphate is all that good for you. There are other impurities in drano and battery acid (such as dissolved lead compounds) that would probably make the mixture toxic.
Now, if you mixed pure hydrochloric acid and pure sodium hydroxide ('purified' drano), *IN THE PROPER STRENGTHS AND QUANTITIES*, that would simply make plain salt water, which would be drinkable. Salty, but drinkable.
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2007-11-07 10:45:01 · answer #1 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!!!!
When an acid and base neutralize each other, there are still left in solution the other ions. Ex: HNO3 + NH4OH --> H2O AND NH4NO3!!! You want to drink ammonium nitrate?
Have you ever looked at Drano? All the junk that's in it besides NaOH would kill you. Same with battery acid. They are not pure substances.
2007-11-07 18:44:05 · answer #2 · answered by papastolte 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will not recommend it. There is more things in Drano than sodium hydroxide. So, it is not true.
2007-11-07 18:40:52 · answer #3 · answered by William Q 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldnt ever do that it could kill you.
2007-11-07 18:44:19 · answer #4 · answered by LoveMyLilGirlNLilMan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋