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« on: May 23, 2015, 05:24:26 PM »
Would monopotassium phosphate react with calcium hypochlorite? I wanted to make a dry mix of 250 g of monopotassium phosphate to 1 gram of calcium hypochlorite? If they are stable dry, would that change when dissolved in water?

Also, would I be able to add insole-3-butyric acid potassium salts?

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Re: Reaction?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2015, 06:45:11 AM »
For what you need this strange mixture. I think if it get wet chlorine gas will devloped.

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Re: Reaction?
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2015, 07:44:11 PM »
Would monopotassium phosphate react with calcium hypochlorite? I wanted to make a dry mix of 250 g of monopotassium phosphate to 1 gram of calcium hypochlorite? If they are stable dry, would that change when dissolved in water?

Also, would I be able to add insole-3-butyric acid potassium salts?

hypochlorites  are not stable

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Re: Reaction?
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2015, 08:20:52 AM »
Would monopotassium phosphate react with calcium hypochlorite? I wanted to make a dry mix of 250 g of monopotassium phosphate to 1 gram of calcium hypochlorite? If they are stable dry, would that change when dissolved in water?
They probably would react when wet, and not in a dry mix.

HClO is a weak acid. pKa +7,52. Slightly weaker than the second base of phosphoric acid (pKa 7,21). In a dilute aqueous solution of NaClO, the equilibrium should be on the side of HClO, slightly.
But it isnĀ“t NaClO. It is Ca(ClO)2.
The insolubility of CaHPO4 should drive the reaction to completion even in a dilute solution:
KH2PO4+Ca(ClO)2 =CaHPO4 :spindown:+KClO+HClO
But a wet powder is not a dilute solution. No, it should not evolve chlorine in the absence of a reducer. It should evolve Cl2O:
2KH2PO4+Ca(ClO)2 =CaHPO4 :spindown:+K2HPO4+H2O+Cl2O :spinup:

Actually, HClO looks slightly like H2CO3. Both are weak acids (H2CO3 pKa is 6,35) and liable to evolve gases.
Dry mixes of NaHCO3 with dry solid acids like citric acids are stable, but evolve gas when wet. I expect that dry mixes of Ca(ClO)2 with dry solid acids should do the same.
Also, would I be able to add insole-3-butyric acid potassium salts?
What is that "insole-3-butyric acid"?

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Re: Reaction?
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2015, 08:28:45 AM »
In my opinion the precipitation will be Ca3(PO4)2. We use KH2PO4 what means fre HClO will be set free. This dispproortionate to Chlorate and Chloride. Chloride it self will react with hypochlorite ans develop chlorine.

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