Please try this MYTH on TV. They say mixing chemcials will make a deadly gas. I want to mix chemicals with water to see the reaction. Then mix the chemicals without water to see if it makes a deadly gas.

let me be as positive, polite and politically correct as I can.


YOU ARE AN IDIOT, DO NOT MIX CHEMICALS... EVER.

one year ago in my state some mindless idiot was mixing chemicals. his entire house was a 3 foot deep pit in seconds. Boom.

NEVER EVER MIX CHEMICALS

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YOU ARE AN IDIOT, DO NOT MIX CHEMICALS... EVER.

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NEVER EVER MIX CHEMICALS

Yeah! ooo scarey. So slightly vauge, the world chemicals....dont mix chemicals....wow please be more vauge. Maybe dont ever mix stuff?! Dear me.

But anyway. the gas you are refering to is called mustard gas. And is very toxic, can cause mutations in DNA and can cause cancer. So yeah don't go mixing bleach with other cleaners you might die. Probably not explode, but might die.

Actually you mix chemicals all the time, we call it cooking and baking. What do you think that was but basic chemistry.

No the gas they are referring to is Chlorine gas. Mustard Gas is a whole different animal.

theTroll

What chemicals?

For one, don't mix acid with a base or something like that.

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But anyway. the gas you are refering to is called mustard gas.

No.

It isn't mustard gas.

Mixing some household chemicals like bleach and ammonia can release deadly chlorine gas, not mustard gas. Other mixtures can release acids, ammonia, other deadly gasses or flammable gasses, but not mustard gas.

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Yeah! ooo scarey. So slightly vauge, the world chemicals....dont mix chemicals....wow please be more vauge. Maybe dont ever mix stuff?! Dear me.

yeah you are right... kids mix away.. try all the cleaners you have, all compounds and pure elements you can get and test all the strong acids and bases.

tjfmuk seems to disagree with my vague warning.

I wasnt disagreeing with the warnings, mixing household chemicals like blech, window cleaner is stupid. I was just mocking the vague warning of, "don't mix chemicals". LoL.

p.s. I love the vague warnings, keep them coming!

with all the juveniles on this site, if you tried to explicitly state ALL of the 'things' you shouldn't mix or do you would be helping them hurt themselves/someone else.

even if they were bright and did not try the mixtures you outlined, they may assume that if you didn't list something, then it must be OK.

thats why the vague 'don't mix anything' (for the kiddies).

Yeah good point, I always forget about those 'juveniles' lol.

So yeah kiddies, don't mix anything! Seriously!

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This is no joke! Mixing chemicals is a dangerous idea in the wrong hands. I've learned this first hand.( yep! telling on myself) Many years ago I mixed cleaning products. A white mist came out of the bucket and across the floor,I dam-near killed myself. Disclaimer!(Please don't try this at home, we're what you call professionals.)

Like mechanic, I once mixed two cleaning products, figuring if one was good, then both would be much better. The mop bucket looked like I had dropped a 5-pound block of dry ice in a few gallons of warm water. This white 'fog' rolled out of the mop bucket, and within two minutes, the restaurant was emptied. I was lectured by the manager that what I had done could kill someone. If they did this on the show, they would have to use terms like unobtainium, to prevent morons in hte audience from deciding to try it for themselves. This, of course, is going to lead to yells of 'fake', as some people won't accept the MB crew from hiding anything. This has liability written all over it.

One time my friend and i mixed all the chemicals in his house we could find, then put it in gasoline and lit it on fire.

I feel fine.

Gah! Once at work while stocking shelves, I dropped a can of bathroom cleaner on the floor. It knocked a bottle of window cleaner off of the shelf on its way down, and the two fell top first on the floor next to each other, spewing their contents down the aisle. By the time I got back with the mop, the floor was giving off fumes so badly we had to open all of the doors in the store (we have a 10,000 square foot floor space). While mopping the mess, my feet started feeling warm, and I checked my shoes to see the bottoms of my sneakers beginning to melt.

It's just so not a good idea.

use commercial products to get a chemical reaction, they wont be deadly. So Adam and Jamie will be able to do it on TV, and they will figure out how to make deadly them selves.

The mixing of any chemical could possibly land you in the hospital. Like everyone else, I agree. NEVER MIX CHEMICALS. The result could harm you.

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yeah you are right... kids mix away.. try all the cleaners you have, all compounds and pure elements you can get and test all the strong acids and bases.

Wow! I made a greenish gas that *ack*

Reserve the mixing to the EXPERTS. Read warning labels. and when it's said "DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME"? DON'T!