Holy shit. That's pool shock - powdered chlorine!?!? She may not have vision or smooth breathing anymore... For a variety of reasons (gravel, plastic, lack of eye protection... and concentrated chlorine).
Concentrated hot bleach, like 30X the strength of laundry bleach kind of strong chemical.
If she didn't get that rinsed nearly immediately she's gonna be blind, with chemical burns.... at best.... she literally may have made an actual explosion with that chemical reaction and could have just shrapnel'd her whole body on top of it.
God I really hope she went and got help sooner than he did! Not only did he wait 4 hours before getting seen, according to the article, 24 hours after the incident and after roughly 12 hours of treatment. He still went home with blurry vision and irritated skin, being told to go back in 2 weeks for more treatment
Holy fuckingnshit. I came into the comments hoping to hear that she turned out fine and then I saw this…I definitely thought it was just powdered mentos 😳
Yeah, Mentos can't cause a bottle to explode in a closed bottle.
The Mentos creates nucleation points, but it can never produce pressures above the standard equilibrium pressure on the shelf.
The spray from a Mentos or shaken drink come from the nucleation points from bubbles or irregularities rapidly causing the pressure to equalibriate with the gas above it, which doesn't do anything in a sealed bottle, but causes a spray if it's in the atmospheric pressure.
Really? I would’ve thought it would because as a child I got a bottle to explode with white vinegear and baking soda. I realize its different ingredient, but I didnt realize the chemistry was different.
Had a plastic coke bottle go off in my hand with dry ice and water: 14 stitches, three fractures, (all in the tip of my finger) blew the fingernail off, and I had plastic shrapnel in my face.
Its highly reactive to low pH solutions. Cal Hypo has a base pH of 8.0 typically.
Coke has a pH of 2.5. The reaction in the video is a chemical one more so than a physical one. Most sugars will release the trapped CO2 , such as mentos.
This reaction released and heated the chlorine gas.
*calcium hypochlorite is what they make dry chlorination from. Sodium hypochlorite is unstable and mostly decomposes. What remains i believe is explosive.
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u/cadillacactor 4d ago edited 3d ago
Holy shit. That's pool shock - powdered chlorine!?!? She may not have vision or smooth breathing anymore... For a variety of reasons (gravel, plastic, lack of eye protection... and concentrated chlorine).