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Reagen, or anyone else chem-smart, doesn’t regular hydrogen peroxide turn into water soon after water is added to it?

Posted by i.b! (aka starrynut) Nov 20 '23, 13:17

or it’s exposed to air, light, or heat?

asking as I’ve recently seen it recommended as an addition to some homemade cleaning products and to keep some cut flowers going longer. I thought that extra O was released pretty fast.

googling didn’t bring quite what I’m after here.

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Damnit. -- nm - Food-Chem S.I. Nov 20, 13:38
Light is the main decomposer, but there's numerous catalysts, including most organic material. -- nm - Reagen Nov 20, 13:36 1
- most boring episode of Classroom Transcripts ever -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 20, 13:45
It decomposes slowly into water and elemental oxygen when exposed to light, and rapidly in the presence of organic or reactive compounds. - crash davis Nov 20, 13:30
Yes. The light and impurities in water will cause it to catalyze and become water and free oxygen. -- nm - TWuG Nov 20, 13:28 1
- Oh to be free again. -- nm - Loyola Nov 20, 13:32

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Reagen, or anyone else chem-smart, doesn’t regular hydrogen peroxide turn into water soon after water is added to it?

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