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Something about Bleach & Plastic * 1
    #26610788 - 04/18/20 03:03 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Dipping my fingers into a 1% bleach solution (@ 1/2 cup bleach to a gallon of water) makes opening those frustratingly tightly clad cheap kitchen garbage bags easy. Usually I have to spend time pinching each side of the opening with my finger nails trying to get the bag to open, but for some reason the 1% bleach solution goes against the expected results of making things slipperier by making the plastic tackier to the fingers and those pesky bags open right up.

I once read something to the effect that pouring bleach onto car tires gave them more traction in snow and I actually tried that without seeing any benefit, but now I'll have to try it again with a 1% solution of bleach.


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Re: Something about Bleach & Plastic [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #26611029 - 04/18/20 04:58 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Or maybe the bleach neutralizes a static electric cling effect.


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Re: Something about Bleach & Plastic [Re: Buster_Brown] * 1
    #26612516 - 04/19/20 09:22 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

The bleach defats your skin resulting in more traction on the plastic.


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Re: Something about Bleach & Plastic [Re: Asante]
    #26612759 - 04/19/20 11:30 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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The bleach defats your skin resulting in more traction on the plastic.




Hmmm...That's interesting. Thanks


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Re: Something about Bleach & Plastic [Re: Asante]
    #26627332 - 04/25/20 02:20 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

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The bleach defats your skin resulting in more traction on the plastic.




I...don't see how it could?

Normally organics defat skin by dissolving the fats, bleach won't do that. Unless the bleach is breaking down fats, somehow, which I think would be both very painful and not very likely with such a low concentration.


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Re: Something about Bleach & Plastic [Re: Kryptos]
    #26631129 - 04/27/20 12:40 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

How would a compound so close to sodium hydroxide defat skin?


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Re: Something about Bleach & Plastic [Re: Asante]
    #26632452 - 04/27/20 03:52 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

That would be saponification, not defatting.


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Re: Something about Bleach & Plastic [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #26633783 - 04/28/20 08:13 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Drag racers used to use bleach under the back tires.


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Re: Something about Bleach & Plastic [Re: Brian Jones]
    #26691835 - 05/24/20 05:37 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Well I have the 70% alcohol spray but that doesn't work as well as the bleach solution in the utility of this application. So the effect of the alcohol dissolving oils is not the reason for the separation of layers (more likely something to do with bleach effecting static cling is my guess)


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Re: Something about Bleach & Plastic [Re: Kryptos]
    #26692740 - 05/24/20 01:53 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

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Kryptos said:
Quote:

Asante said:
The bleach defats your skin resulting in more traction on the plastic.




I...don't see how it could?

Normally organics defat skin by dissolving the fats, bleach won't do that. Unless the bleach is breaking down fats, somehow, which I think would be both very painful and not very likely with such a low concentration.



It could just be that the plastic is adsorping ions.


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