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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFrom personal experience, I think that someone made the mistake of mixing bleach with ammonia
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From personal experience, I think that someone made the mistake of mixing bleach with ammonia (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Nov 2019
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hlthe2b
(102,413 posts)1. Interesting that this came up recently and I was shocked to hear that none of a group of teens
and younger adults had a clue that mixing the two was a problem. Honestly, I knew better when I was 10 years old and it was reinforced in basic science classes and then chemistry classes in school.
Depressing...
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)3. This is definitely an area where school are failing, not even
necessarily in Chemistry, just common sense. Everyone over the age of 10 should know this.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)2. My best friend ended up in the hospital when her mother
did this trying to clean their hot tub.
PJMcK
(22,056 posts)4. Yet another reason our education system sucks
There is so little importance focused on science and math. The result of the decades-long Republican attacks on public education have resulted in far too many Americans who cannot think critically and know so little about the world around themselves.
The death of the Wild Wings worker is very sad. It was a terrible accident that was entirely preventable.