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Do you mean dihydrogen monoxide? Because Sodium hydroxide is most definitely not water. That much should be obvious by the "sodium" alone.
But Sodium hydroxide is not toxic. The worst it would do is irritate your eyes in the shower. Its used to make soaps and cleaners. Not sure why they went through all that trouble to be slightly annoying to people in that city's water treatment range.
Contact with sodium hydroxide can kill skin and cause hair loss, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Ingestion can be fatal.
Direct contact or a ridiculously concentrated solution. But once introduced into the water i cant see how they could ever add enough to cause any issues.
I mean they normally add 100ppm to disinfect and remove heavy metals but osha only allows 1.2ppm max daily exposure. So basically none of that ever reaches your faucet.
Even at 11,000ppm i wonder how much would actually reach the faucet.
As someone who once had a weak NaOH solution get in through a paper cut I sure as hell wouldn't want to drink water that had it at that concentration in the article.
Of course everything is concentration dependent but NaOH is a strong base. It is commonly used to neutralize strong acids. In higher concentrations it will melt you. Even in relatively low concentrations usually found in cleaning solutions, NaOH is still very harmful to flesh (you must wear protective gear/gloves/googles, etc.).
I highly recommend you don't drink it because you will certainly die (extremely toxic). People that clean up road kill use it to dissolve biomatter (liquification). Bones left over turn to dust upon touch.
I'm not sure what you are thinking of, but its not Sodium Hydroxide.
All bar soaps have sodium hydroxide in them. How many kids have had bar soaps in their mouths for swearing lmao.
Even if you ate that bar of soap you'd be fine.
Like i said, they already add 100ppm to city drinking water as a disinfectant everyday. None of it reaches your faucet. Most of the amount he added would have added would likely have been absorbed along the way.
But like you said concentration matters. I wonder what the exact concentration would have been at the faucet if it wasnt caught.
Sodium hydroxide may be used in the making of soap (I don't know I'd have to look it up but I don't care, I know chemistry), but it is not "in soap." That's not how chemistry works.
Maybe, but soap is not a NaOH solution.
Again, I'm not going to look it up because its irrelevant. If you add it to water as a disinfectant you are doing one of two things, neutralizing overly acidic water, or killing bacteria (because it strongly kills things). If you use it to kill bacteria you can then follow up with an acid to neutralize it.
Again, do NOT consume NaOH. EVER.
Yeah no doubt, it can be absolutely dangerous. But hydrochloric acid will absolutely destroy you, but can be completely neutralized with a 1:1 ratio of water.
After leaving the treatment plant it would be introduced to a million gallons of water.
What concentration would that have been when it reached the faucet? Hard to tell, im sure someone can figure it out. They increased the concentration 100x at the facility. But there are several more steps to the treatment before even leaving the facility.
Im not downplaying the possibility of how dangerous it is, but the concentration at the faucet would likely have been nothing more than a mild irritant.
For example, apples contain arsenic and cyanide. Concentration matters.
No! Please look up Saponification. There is a chemical reaction between fats and lye (sodium hydroxide), and what remains is a type of salt. This is why real soap tastes salty. If you have lye heavy soap, it can burn your skin. Soaps/detergents might say lye/sodium hydroxide, but that's what goes into making them, not what's left in the final product.
If you've seen Breaking Bad, Sodium Hydroxide is what they put in the bathtub. They also used it in Fight Club when making soap with fat.
Yeah no doubt, it can be absolutely dangerous. But hydrochloric acid will absolutely destroy you, but can be completely neutralized with a 1:1 ratio of water.
After leaving the treatment plant it would be introduced to a million gallons of water.
What concentration would that have been when it reached the faucet? Hard to tell, im sure someone can figure it out. They increased the concentration 100x at the facility. But there are several more steps to the treatment before even leaving the facility.
Im not downplaying the possibility of how dangerous it is, but the concentration at the faucet would likely have been nothing more than a mild irritant.
For example, apples contain arsenic and cyanide. Concentration matters.
Depends on the concentration. NaOH is imported by tankers and gauged the same way as oil, diesel, FO etc. It is very nasty at those concentrations. I can't remember what that is; but it is slimy, viscous like warm maple syrup, and extremely caustic. If you don't immediately wash it off with water vigorously it burns very quickly. And God help you if you ever fell into a tank of that stuff. It's a strong base, and dissociates completely into it's Na and OH. If there's a spill just wash it down with large amounts of water (I'd guess, though who knows what the protocol is). Solution by dilution. Incidentally, one or two drops of regular bleach per gallon of water can help purify water