• Question: what is chloros?why does it turn your clothes pink?

    Asked by bacon and cabbage to Tiernan, Sonia, Mossy, Maureen, Bernard on 9 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Sonia Lenehan

      Sonia Lenehan answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      It is a hypochlorite which means it is bleach! It turns pink because some of the dyes in the clothes react with the bleach!

    • Photo: Maureen

      Maureen answered on 12 Nov 2018:

      Bleach, or chloros, is a solution of NaClO, which is an oxidizing agent. It removes electrons from the food coloring molecules to a state in which they don’t emit red light any more!

      Here’s a really cool video of how it works!

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