Re: What is the Molecular formula of clorox

Date: Fri Jun 1 12:59:49 2001
Posted By: Dan Berger, Faculty Chemistry/Science, Bluffton College
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 990660868.Ch

Message:

Have you looked on the bottle? In the US, chlorox bottles are labeled as 5% sodium hypochlorite, which is NaClO. The answers you cite (NaOCl2 and NaHClO2) make no chemical sense.

The moral: don't believe everything you see on the internet. There isn't any sort of peer review on most cites--not even the rather weak form we have on the Mad Scientist Network.

Dan Berger
MadSci Administrator

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