Posted on 07/24/2004 6:48:32 PM PDT by NCjim
Click on the link in my Post 180. The stuff's amazing - I've not seen a single fire ant in the area I treated, and they advertise season-long control. Wally World carries it.
THANKS!
Ammonia and bleach are not to be mixed together - what results is that oily nitrogen trichloride [NCl(3)] separates. The stuff is EXPLOSIVE AND SENSITIVE; in 19 century Friedrich Wohler, one of the greater German chemists, lost an eye in work accident with it. On another hand, if care is taken that NCl(3) is always in dilute solution, one could do some work with it, but has to work fast, with light protection and cooling. This kind of work is best left to the professionals.
Yikes.
Possibly.
Ammonia and bleach can also create a neat solid rocket fuel base chem.. if you keep the reaction cool and have much more ammonia than bleach.
(Tertiary chemical reaction between ammonia and bleach if I recall correctly.. probably don't.. been too long since I fussed with the stuff and tried making rocket fuel.)
Did near blow myself up while gassing myself.
(I'm likely gonna post this and rememeber what the devil I'm talking about a few piosts later and go: "D'uh!!")
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