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Chloroform byproduct
« on: March 28, 2006, 02:33:11 PM »
I guess this is an organic chemical. But, if I decided to clean the rotten dirty floor of an old mobile home with bleach, could that produce a sufficient amount of chloroform that is toxic? I don't know how "trigger happy" the haloform reaction is with organic material.

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Re:Chloroform byproduct
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2006, 07:53:32 PM »
Nah, I doubt that would happen.  You usually need a lot of X-X to get the haloform reaction to go, plus you need some reasonably strong base like NaOH.  Bleach is pretty much neutral, I think.  You're more likely to suffer from exposure to Cl-Cl than chloroform, I would think.

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