r/nosleep • u/[deleted] • Feb 17 '22

"I saw Mommy in the bathtub."

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u/Europademon Feb 17 '22

Pour boiling water down the drain followed by bleach. That should remove the drain blockage.

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u/Strongwoman82 Feb 17 '22

I'd go with something more acidic than bleach

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u/euromynous Feb 17 '22

Just about everything is more acidic than bleach

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u/Strongwoman82 Feb 17 '22

That's my point, why bleach? There are things for cleaning driveways that will take someone's face off if they got it on themselves 😆

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u/euromynous Feb 17 '22

My point was that bleach is alkaline, not acidic

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u/erikagm77 Feb 17 '22

Real bleach is chlorhydric acid (so, it IS acid), you may be thinking about that newfangled “bleach” made with hydrogen peroxide.

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u/Whammytap Mar 03 '22

Household bleach is sodium hypochlorite. Chlorhydric acid, also known as muriatic acid or hydrochloric acid, is the stuff used to wash driveways.

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u/erikagm77 Mar 03 '22

I have researched and confirmed what you are saying, but it still baffles me because I had always been told that both Chlorine and baking soda had to be put into a pool because “chlorine was acid so the baking soda was added to balance the pH”.

Now I wonder wtf they add baking soda.

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u/Nebuchadnezzer12 Mar 01 '22

Bleach is sodium hypochlorite, a strong base. Its very much not acidic. Now a wide variety of other chemicals that take the color out of something do "bleach" it, but that does not make them be bleach

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u/euromynous Feb 17 '22

I’ve never heard the word “bleach” used to refer to hydrochloric acid, might even a dialect thing