The Chemical Reaction Between Ammonia And Bleach According to the BBC News (2011) Fritz Haber, a German Jewish scientist, who studied the thermodynamics of gas reactions, discovered the potential for fixation as a result of synthesizing chlorine and ammonia into a poisonous gas, which was later used to annihilate millions of Jews during the holocaust. The Material Safety Data Sheet (2014) for dawn dishwashing liquid suggests it contains ‘amines’ which is a derivative of ammonia and explains …show more content…
According to the PubChem (2017) household bleach has a chemical formula of NaOCl meaning one atom each of sodium, oxygen, and chlorine with the chemical name of sodium hypochlorite, whereas ammonia’s chemical name is azane and the chemical formula is NH3, meaning one atom of nitrogen and three atoms of hydrogen, and when combined, the reaction of 2(parts) NaOCl + 2NH3 → 2NaONH3 + Cl2 takes place. Subsequently one part chlorine gas made of two atom (diatomic) molecules is liberated from the concentration of bleach (Hill & McCreary, …show more content…
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