If you don’t have Drano, then lye
is your best friend:
Warning:
Lye(and Drano) is extremely harmful and can cause chemical burns of
first degree, you ought to avoid direct contact with your body, mixing
chemicals with water might get the water to boil putting you and your EYEs in a
risk of injuries even from a distance. Don’t try any of the described below
unless you're not a minor and can understand the above precautions.
While fat and grease are most dangerous when they affect the cardiac
system, still they are pretty annoying when
you find out the your drains have clogs, especially when there are some hair
allowing the fat and grease to accumulate even more making one big clog that
might spell doom on your drains.
The above statement is more than enough for people who know some
Chemistry to realize that some lye would come at handy in this kind of
situations. It's not rocket science simply the lye would eat the clogs away forming
new things that can go away by simply pouring water .
So what is happening there??
the lye would react with the fatty things through a process called hydrolysis(braking
some bonds by reacting with water) yielding soap,, (yes soap, in fact the
procedure of manufacturing soaps through hydrolysis of fatty things is still in
use tell this day in some countries around the world). Soaps resulting from
processing fats with sodium hydroxide (Lye) are soluble in water. And for the
hair to be removed another hydrolysis procedure would take place tearing the
molecules of a single hair into way much smaller ,molecules that can be drained
by water.
That being said why do we even
want to buy Drano any way??
Crystal Drano (and of course other
commercial products) has something more than just lye, it has Aluminum shards and
sodium nitrate (According to the National Institutes of Health's
Household Products Database).
When aluminum shards react with
lye a big amount of heat is exerted leading to a faster more efficient hydrolysis
of the clogs, even though that mixing lye with water would raise the temperature
of the solution but the reaction with aluminum would make the water boil. And we
have the nitrate ion coming from sodium nitrate which would function as an
oxidizing agent simply cracking the molecules that won't be removed by lye into
smaller ones.
Tell next time keep it Chemo-Clean.
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