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Offline Tex

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storing chemicals
« on: February 12, 2016, 02:00:30 PM »
hi,

I have (in my garage on a wooden shelf) 2 times 1l 7% H2O2, 1l 37% H2O2, 1l concentrated H2SO4, 2 small plastic bags with KI and KNO3 and a bottle with 800g KHCO3.
The plastic bottles concentrated H2SO4 and H2O2 are both in separate plastic containers.

They are on the same shelf where I keep my organic fertilizer.

Is it ok to store like this?

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Re: storing chemicals
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2016, 06:51:03 PM »
I would keep H2O2 and H2SO4 as far from each other as possible on the shelf, they seem to me like the only potentially dangerous combination.
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Re: storing chemicals
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2016, 03:19:32 PM »
OK
one question which might be a bit stupid...

When I have an empty bottle of H2SO4, there is of course still some H2SO4 on the sides inside  the bottle.
Is  it ok to poor water in such a bottle to clean it?
It will not give any splashing?

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Re: storing chemicals
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2016, 04:34:55 PM »
Minute traces of chemicals always adsorb on surface. Eventually use  very dilute bicarbonate to neutralize traces of sulfuric acid.
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Re: storing chemicals
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2016, 07:55:30 AM »
Ah ok,
So I can wash the bottle with KHCO3.

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Re: storing chemicals
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2016, 12:55:34 PM »
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So I can wash the bottle with KHCO3.

I would think that NaHCO3 might be less expensive.

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I think when @Tex said
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It will not give any splashing?
a thought was given to the rule to add acid to water and not adding water to acid.
I am assuming that in this case the cleaning process adds so much more water than acid that the heating is diluted out.
Other wise how would we clean glassware that once contained an acid.




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Re: storing chemicals
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2016, 11:34:15 AM »
I have KHCO3 as fungicide :)
I use it on my tomatoes.

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