Mustard Gas hazard?
There was a mention that the mixture of bleach and ammonia creates mustard gas so that one should be careful not to get bleach into the black water tank because urine breaks down to ammonia and if ble...
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adayjk wrote:
There is only a handful of grams of urea in each liter of urine. The urea is what is broken doen into ammonia NH3.
The sodium hyperclorite (bleach) is only a small percentage Cl (actuall NaCl). The chlorene gas (not mustard) gas thenmix of the two produces is toxic. There are also some nasty nitrogen compounds produced at the same time.
Bleach slowly decomposes in water, and what you smell when you smell that bleach smell is actually released Cl. As already stated, there is so little Cl and NH3 that you couldn't make enough gas to hurt a fly (litterally).
Thanks, you beat me to the explaination!
WoodGlue
