Posted on 04/20/2020 9:22:35 PM PDT by free_life
I bought a hypochlorous acid water generator. To disinfect surfaces, food pretty much everything.
It makes 300ml in 8 minutes.
My question is how long is it good for as a disinfectant?
I thought I would make a few gallons of it (water and salt) and put it into spray bottles and give a couple of bottles to each of my family households to disinfect with. Is it still an effective disinfectant 2 days later, a week later, 2 weeks later...?
Shouldn’t the instructions on the box give that info?
4 hours. Sorry.
(Unless you want to undertake heroic measures to preserve it, e.g., by always refilling unused portions into a perfectly-sized dark bottle, etc.)
Regards,
It is a low level scam. You are making bleach by electrolyzing a dilute solution of salt and vinegar.
I say low-level because it isn’t exorbitantly expensive, but you can achieve the same effect by buying a bottle of Chlorox, or a store brand.
If you gently sniff the solution it makes you will find out that it smells just like bleach because it is.
A few hours.
Sounds like a waste of money.
I forgot to mention, instructions were in Chinese no English...sigh :(
I would think it depends on the concentration you are making and what concentration level you would consider acceptable. I would guess a shelf life of 3 months would be the maximum I would store it. Keep the solution container full and tightly capped and it might last a bit longer. Open the container and expose it to air and the stability would start to degrade. Use it all in the first week or two and you would get optimum efficacy. As long as you make your own, I would just make what you can use within a month.
As long as it works I am happy with it, water and salt and I make a disinfectant water for years.
Thank you
New mission in life: figure out how to mix this with tonic water to make a cure for Covid-19
Citric acid? Sure... why not a little orange juice in your Covid-19-fighting tonic-and-gin?
Hydrogen peroxide
How long is the disinfectant active after being generated from the EcoloxTech system?
In a closed container such as a spray bottle, the concentration of hypochlorous acid decreases about 1-2% per day.
150 proof vodka is 76% alcohol and effective at killing enveloped viruses, including the coronavirus. Drink happy, kill happy.
Isn’t that a form of bleach? Bleach is sodium hypochlorite.
No thanks, I’ll stick with Everclear.
And you know how well Chinese mechanicals work
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