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I do a small amount of comercial laundry and had an idea to add oxygen to the water. I guess I thought that is something like oxyclean. I found out my idea wasn't original as there is a very expensive system that does that. My question though is can I take a oxygen tank and hook it to a carbonater (like a post mix soda pop carbonater) to add oxygen to water? Is there any dangers? Better idea?
Oxygen is a very poor oxidizer. Oxyclean is peroxycarbonate which is CO2 and peroxide. Peroxide is a better oxidizer. Using oxygen would be very dangerous (compressed gas andflammability problems) and not be very useful in the long run. You can also only put so much oxygen in water. Unless you do it under pressure.
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Chemistry (non-biochemistry), environmental science, occupational health and safety, environmental regulation and management, environmental engineering, and wastewater engineering. I'm the Director of Environmental, Health, and Safety and the Director of Research at the Institute of Textile Technology.
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