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I learned more about the possible volatile reactions of household chemicals from freshman history and video games than my chem class.

That said, American schools do a piss-poor job of teaching the practical applications of anything. I had to take two algebra classes, trig and pre calc to graduate high school but not one fucking personal finance course was available. I can solve triangles like a boss but I'm flat fucking broke!

Sooo.. what would be the method if bleach and urine should not come into contact?

Lassie

how about a bit of bleach and isopropyl alcohol which i believe results in chloroform

Oh excuse us smarty pants, this is not basic chemistry

Years, at least

>aluminum and iron iii oxide powder

At least this requires an ignition source. Mixing the two without igniting it is harmless.

What is a golden retriever husband?

It is kinda a big error if you state that someone else doesn’t even know “basic chemistry”

I guess that makes sense. I have had a couple cat with significant urinary issues, one kept getting sick with it. So, we had a lot to deal with. I always found vinegar worked better. I tried everything I could find!

Desktops are one thing; laptops can be pretty toasty, depending on their workload. So it could push it out of the thermal limits of the drive and be throttled.

It depends on the laptop, though so 🤷

Did you?

I wasn't suggesting she was, just that most every TIFU post I've seen with a title like that has gone in that direction. I was more poking mild fun at the sub itself than anything.

Its not a big error. I wouldnt sweat it a moment. It is really amazing what dumb things we can do to harm ourselves with common household chemicals.

Forgetting the mustard gas, it still isn’t a good idea to play in bleachy chlorine water….Man his parents and school didn’t do him any favors

Bleach was what we had available at the time. And what i have been using for big messes like this for years. Dilute with a little water, soak, scrub, rinse and then wash in a heavy duty cycle has been an easy way to get things clean. This was the first time he had done it. And i just didn’t explain all the minute steps

You are right, I have corrected my error

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Its funny now for sure. Especially when i think back to the split second his face went from “look, its making boiling bubbles” to “I’m gonna throw up”

Everybody learned something new. And shit sure happens

Yeah I don't know I got two votes I guess that's enough I don't know if it goes up or down or whatever but you know bleach and ammonia make chlorine gas I don't know how you make mustard gas but I guess it sounds better for the other person but you know basically don't mix chemicals unless you know what you're doing

I had a philosophy of science teacher say people would rather die than think and they do.

Because presumably the drive was overheating and throttled itself so far down it was like using a mechanical drive on Windows 3.1

Removing the plastic as I should have allowed thermal transfer between the pad and copper Heatsink. With the plastic on, the pad had nothing to transfer the heat to and all that heat was trapped under the plastic.

Why did you tell him to even use bleach? You rinse and rinse fabric soaked with cat urine, and then use soap, and rinse, over and over until the water runs clear, and then use either an enzyme cleaner or vinegar. Far more effective than bleach.

I agree. I’ve had cats my entire life and have never thought about the ammonia in the pee reacting to cleaning solutions. I also never clean with bleach…why would he have to use bleach to begin with?

Windows was so erratic that I wouldn't trust the drive to throttle itself. Had th processor been boosting and the 3070 active, the drives would have been heatsoaked to oblivion. If they didn't act write in Windows, gaming certainly wouldn't have done it any favors