How Bleach Works

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Anam Mohammed
Mrs.Birdwell
English 2 Honors
November 1, 2016
How Bleach Works Bleach is an amazing thing. It gets tough spots off your white clothes in a jiffy and makes it look brand new. A lot of people use this product, but no one has the time to actually figure out how it works. The element that is inside bleach includes Chlorine. “A Swedish pharmacist named Carl Wilhem Scheele released a few drops of hydrochloric acid onto a piece of manganese dioxide. Within seconds a greenish - yellow gas arose. The greenish-yellow gas was actually an element which was only recognized several decades later by English Chemist Sir Humphery Davy” (american chem). Suprisingly the word chlorine comes from the Greek Word Khloros which means greenish-yelllow. Many people think that bleach is only used to whiten and brighten clothes. Although that is not necessarily true. Scientists have now learned to use bleach in many different ways. They use it to eliminate germs, sterilize equipment, and it even makes our water cleaner. A plus side of using chlorine is that it is an abundant and desirable element which make it a great product for use. Chlorine is one of the essential “building blocks of our planet.” …show more content…

The bleach that we use to clean drinking water is the same bleach that is used to clean a pool. The only difference is that the amount used to clean water is different from a pool. The amount of bleach in a pool is 3ppm ppm stands for part per million. There is 2ppm to 3ppm of bleach in our drinking water depending on the contaamination. Although not a lot of people agree with cleaning our drinking water with Chlorine which is in bleach. Although howstuffworks.com says “It is a whole lot safer to drink chlorinated water than conatminated water with disease causing

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