Hydrogen Peroxide Miracles!
Amazing Recipes For Home, Health & Healing
Brad Tomson
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Copyright 2014
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Introduction
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a colorless liquid that is used as a bleaching agent, as well as disinfectant. What makes this chemical compound interesting is that it is naturally occurring in nature and most living organisms, including animals, produce trace amounts of Hydrogen peroxide as part of their immune responses.
This is the reason why the Hydrogen compound has caught the attention of many people who are looking for environmentally-friendly, as well as safe, disinfectants to use at home.
However, Hydrogen peroxide is not only used as a surface cleaning agent, as it also has many interesting uses. This eBook will list all of the benefits that you can get from Hydrogen peroxide.
Chapter 1. What Is Hydrogen Peroxide?
Hydrogen peroxide is also known as H O . It is a colorless liquid substance that is a bit more viscous than water. It is more often available in liquid form, for safety reasons. It is a strong oxidizer and is commonly used as a disinfectant and bleaching agent. As a living organism, we do produce minute amounts of hydrogen peroxide in our body during respiratory bursts, which is a portion of our immune response pathway.
Hydrogen Peroxide was first described by Louis Jacques Thenard in 1818. He came across the compound when he was treating barium peroxide with nitric acid. This process of creating Hydrogen Peroxide was used until the mid-1900s until an improved version of the process was discovered. The first pure Hydrogen Peroxide compound was isolated by Richard Wolffenstein almost 80 years after Thenard discovered the compound.
Historical Use Of Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen Peroxide is used by a lot of industries todayranging from the medical field to the industrial field and even as a propellant. It is used in a lot of applications, which are detailed below:
Explosives
As macabre as it sounds, Hydrogen Peroxide has been used to create lethal organic peroxide based explosives like acetone peroxide. This type of improvised explosive device degrades quickly and is not used as a military or commercial explosive. This type of explosive device was the type used in the London bombings of July 7, 2005.
Propellant
Hydrogen Peroxide was once used to propel jetpacks. In the years between 1940and 1950, H2O2 was used in a Walter turbine to enable submarines to submerge. Torpedoes also made use of Hydrogen Peroxide as a propellant or an oxidizer. However, this use was completely eradicated once the Japanese Navy found out that Hydrogen Peroxide can also cause explosions in torpedoes and submarines, which they attributed to the cause of the sinking of Russian submarine Kursk and the HMS Sidon .
Alternative Medicine
Advocates of alternative medicine were always on the go when it comes to the use of Hydrogen Peroxide to treat several health problems like cancer, AIDS, influenza, emphysema and many others. The practice enumerates that a patient should consume Hydrogen Peroxide whether through injection or through oral consumption. The idea behind this is based on two concepts: One, Hydrogen Peroxide is produced naturally by the body to fight infection; Two, that most of the disease causing agents in humans are anaerobic pathogens who cannot survive oxygen rich environments, such as cancer. Through this mechanism, people believe that Hydrogen Peroxide kills the diseases agent by mimicking the immune response.
Cosmetic Applications
Hydrogen Peroxide is used in teeth whitening and is mixed with salt or baking soda to create toothpaste. The compound is also used to bleach hair to achieve a peroxide blonde. Hydrogen Peroxide is also a common liquid used in treating acne, but in recent years it was replaced with benzoyl peroxide.
Medical
In the yesteryears, Hydrogen Peroxide was a common disinfectant used to disinfect wounds because of its availability and low cost in comparison to other antiseptics. However, is now believed that it slows healing and can lead to scarring because it destroys the newly formed skin cells; only a very small concentration of Hydrogen Peroxide can induce healing and only if it is not applied repeatedly.
Hydrogen Peroxide was also once used to disinfect surfaces in homes, medical institutions and hospitals because it is environmentally benign and is a good alternative to chlorine based bleaches. But, studies have concluded that Hydrogen Peroxide is ineffective for use in hospitals and medical institutionsbut it is still effective for home use.
Industrial
Majority of Hydrogen Peroxide production is used for paper and pulp bleaching. The next major use of Hydrogen Peroxide is in the creation of sodium perborate and sodium percarbonate , which are used in laundry detergents as mild bleaches.
Hydrogen Peroxide is also used in some processes of waste water treatment in order to eradicate impurities. One such process is the Fenton reaction, which readily destroys organic contaminates that are normally hard to eradicate. With the use of Hydrogen Peroxide in waste water treatment, it can also decrease the odor.
Other Uses
Hydrogen Peroxide also has other uses , like for fish aeration. Fish culturists have found an innovative way to provide oxygen for small fishsafely. The Hydrogen Peroxide releases its oxygen when subjected to manganese dioxide.
In horticulture, a weak hydrogen peroxide solution can kill off a variety of plant pests and even treat root rot. Aside from that, Hydrogen Peroxide enhances a plants root development with the release of oxygen when the compound decomposes in the soil.
Did you know that glow sticks are made from Hydrogen Peroxide? Yep, they are. With the addition of esters like phenyl oxalate ester or cyalume, Hydrogen Peroxide produces chemiluminiscence or glow sticks.
Different Grades Of Hydrogen Peroxide
There are different grades of Hydrogen Peroxide but not all grades are available in the market. These include:
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