The fumes from lye alone are dangerous to contact lens wearers and mucous membranes. Lye can cause burns. Liquid Plumber and many other drain openers contain sulfuric acid and when mixed with bleach, pool chlorine or any other chlorine-based substance can create chlorine gas (as used in chemical warfare).Click to see full answer. Similarly, you may ask, can you mix sodium hydroxide and bleach?There is no reaction. Household bleach often contains a small amount of sodium hydroxide to keep the sodium hypochlorite from decomposing. In reactions, sodium hydroxide is often used to raise the pH of the sodium hypochlorite.Additionally, what Cannot be mixed with bleach? Bleach and ammonia produce a toxic gas called chloramine. “It causes the same symptoms as bleach and vinegar — along with shortness of breath and chest pain,” says Forte. Many glass and window cleaners contain ammonia, so never mix those with bleach. Just so, what does lye and bleach do? Bleach is an alkali much like lye, but its chemical formula is NaOCl, which indicates it has a chlorine atom (Cl) instead of the hydrogen atom that helps make lye. Bleach can react with fats much as lye does, splitting off fatty acids, which then react with the sodium to form salts of fatty acids — or soap.Does bleach contain lye?Composition. The active agent in liquid bleach is sodium hypochlorite, which gives the product a light greenish yellow tinge and its characteristic chlorine smell. Liquid bleach usually contains also some sodium hydroxide (caustic soda or soda lye, NaOH), intended to keep the solution alkaline.
