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Re:Apple Faceshield by TheSoftwareGuy on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @03:22PM (#22806548)
interesting, that's a new one I didn't know about. I've always heard the Bleach + Ammonia = Mustard gas, but not that one
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Re:Apple Faceshield by mys_721tx on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @03:34PM (#22806650)
Bleach breaks down to chlorine, which in turn reacts with ammonia to form chloramine. Mustard gas has sulfur and cannot be synthesized this way.
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Re:Apple Faceshield by AnotherGoodName on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @03:40PM (#22806696)
Chlorine based bleach is just one of the things that has the label "Bleach" in your household cleaning aisle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach#Classes_of_bleaches

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Re:Apple Faceshield by mys_721tx on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @04:31PM (#22807184)
The only sulfur containing bleaches in that list are potassium persulfate and sodium hydrosulfite. Neither contains chlorine.

Furthermore, the synthesis of mustard gas is non-trivial. Those two chemicals are not enough to put the sulfur on a carbon chain.

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Re:Apple Faceshield by phyzome on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @03:46PM (#22806765)
If you mix bleach with just about any other cleaning chemical, you get chlorine gas, or chloroform, or some other nasty chlorine-based poisonous fumes.

(though not mustard gas)

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