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I accidentally mixed some sodium hypochlorite with some muriatic acid. Were the resulting fumes "mustard gas".
No. Mustard gas is 1,5-dichloro-3-thiapentane which means you have a carbon source and a sulfur source. You had neither. Believe it or not, the visible fumes were most likely water vapor. There may have been chlorine gas mixed in.
2 H+ (aq) + OCl− (aq) + Cl− (aq) Cl2 (g) + H2O (l)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard
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