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I made a cleaning solution that could clean anything. It was made from:
-1L of 5% bleach (normal stuff at any store)
-3L of 70% isopropyl alcohol
-1/2 cup of dish soap
-a dash of Comet
-1 tablespoon of concentrated ammonia
The solution would settle out as a cloudy yellow mixture. When stirred, it would turn green (because Comet is blue).
Eventually my cleaning solution became saturated, so I decided I would recycle it by distilling it. The mixture I got back is totally different from what went in. The new cleaning solution...
-Is clear orange
-Has a very strong smell (I smelled some 99% IPA for comparison, and this stuff is quite a bit stronger than IPA)
-Feels like IPA. It doesn't dry the way acetone does, but it doesn't bead like water.
-It instantly dissolves isopropyl palmitate, which is a good thing.
Any idea what happened here?
-1L of 5% bleach (normal stuff at any store)
-3L of 70% isopropyl alcohol
-1/2 cup of dish soap
-a dash of Comet
-1 tablespoon of concentrated ammonia
The solution would settle out as a cloudy yellow mixture. When stirred, it would turn green (because Comet is blue).
Eventually my cleaning solution became saturated, so I decided I would recycle it by distilling it. The mixture I got back is totally different from what went in. The new cleaning solution...
-Is clear orange
-Has a very strong smell (I smelled some 99% IPA for comparison, and this stuff is quite a bit stronger than IPA)
-Feels like IPA. It doesn't dry the way acetone does, but it doesn't bead like water.
-It instantly dissolves isopropyl palmitate, which is a good thing.
Any idea what happened here?