Question by A yahoo user: Questions about this chemistry expirement(best answer,10 points,in 1 hour)?
Ok I am trying to create an acid that eats through metal and I heard that if you mix phosphoric acid with sulfate acid the combined chemicals become a corrosive.So I bought a kroger brand toilet bowl cleaner that said it contained phosphoric acid and I got a root killer/draincleaner from walmart that contained virgin sulfuic acid(it came in a plastic bag aound it).I collect scrap metal and I have a bathtub I found in my backyard so I poored in the liquids 1 at a time and nothing happend! I spent 10 bucks on that cleaner at walmart and got nothing so what did I do wrong? Is it because I got sulfuric instead of sulfate? I was told they are the same thing?
Btw.please dont tell me not to do it because its to dangerous because I will do it anyway.I wear gloves and a mask and long sleave shirts when I do these expirements I am very carefull if you know the answer please tell me.
I used a root control for drains I got at walmart.It said virgin sulfuric acid on the front and I used a toilet bowl cleaner that said one of its ingredients was phosphoric acid.
Best answer:
Answer by stanp6
It’s hard to tell what you are trying to do or what you actually did. Almost any acid will eat through some metals. You don’t need some special mixture of phosphoric and sulfuric acids. What you actually used is hard to know. No toilet bowl cleaner or drain cleaner is going to have a lot of any acid. That’s because acids eat through metal. If you used a strong acid in a toilet it would eventually eat through the drain pipe, creating a major mess. If there was sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid in those products they would have to be very diluted or strongly buffered or both.
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Question by A yahoo user: Questions about this chemistry expirement(best answer,10 points,in 1 hour)?
Ok I am trying to create an acid that eats through metal and I heard that if you mix phosphoric acid with sulfate acid the combined chemicals become a corrosive.So I bought a kroger brand toilet bowl cleaner that said it contained phosphoric acid and I got a root killer/draincleaner from walmart that contained virgin sulfuic acid(it came in a plastic bag aound it).I collect scrap metal and I have a bathtub I found in my backyard so I poored in the liquids 1 at a time and nothing happend! I spent 10 bucks on that cleaner at walmart and got nothing so what did I do wrong? Is it because I got sulfuric instead of sulfate? I was told they are the same thing?
Btw.please dont tell me not to do it because its to dangerous because I will do it anyway.I wear gloves and a mask and long sleave shirts when I do these expirements I am very carefull if you know the answer please tell me.
I used a root control for drains I got at walmart.It said virgin sulfuric acid on the front and I used a toilet bowl cleaner that said one of its ingredients was phosphoric acid.
Best answer:
Answer by stanp6
It’s hard to tell what you are trying to do or what you actually did. Almost any acid will eat through some metals. You don’t need some special mixture of phosphoric and sulfuric acids. What you actually used is hard to know. No toilet bowl cleaner or drain cleaner is going to have a lot of any acid. That’s because acids eat through metal. If you used a strong acid in a toilet it would eventually eat through the drain pipe, creating a major mess. If there was sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid in those products they would have to be very diluted or strongly buffered or both.
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