Re: bleach ????
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: bleach ????
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 11:45:34 -0400 (EDT)
I just checked and my generic brand of bleach is just 3% sodium hypo-
chlorite and 97% inert ingredients......we may have differing con-
centrations for our gardening work. (Dave S. is the in-house reliable
source of these chemical "things" - not me for sure!) This is just
what I have been using....
Ellen e_galla@moose.ncia.net
On Tue, 21 May 1996 DavidS1812@aol.com wrote:
> Sorry to make corrections but the standard concentration of household bleach
> is 5.25%. This I know from personal experience having spent my teen-age years
> helping my father manufacture and sell a household bleach for-to-door. The
> 10% concentration being referred to is the standard dilution ( i.e. 1 part
> bleach to 9 parts water). The final concentration of sodium hypochlorite then
> becomes 0.525%.
>
> Dave Silverberg, Pharmacist, Molalla Oregon.
>
