[ScottJohnson]

Hi everyone,

If calcium hypochlorite (pool chlorine) and NaCl are added to boiling water and agitated, is it possible for them to react to form calcium chlorate or sodium chlorate?

thanks for any information.

Scotty

[limpet chicken]

If you want to make group I chlorates or hypochlorites, bubble chlorine gas through a solution of the group I hydroxide, the reaction will yield hypochlorites if done in the cold, and if the solution be boiling, you get chlorates.

I have made chlorates in this manner, but I haven't tried to produce hypochlorites using this reaction.

[jdurg]

Making the hypochlorite is a bit easier since it's done at room temperature.  This is how bleach is made.  (Chlorine gas is passed through a solution of sodium hydroxide forming sodium hypochlorite).  The reverse of this procedure is generally how you make chlorine gas in small quantities.  (At a low pH, the reverse reaction is favored which forms chlorine gas from a hypochlorite solution.  At high pH, the formation of hypochlorite is favored).