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by seanhandley 1404 days ago
Isn’t bleach just a water molecule with an extra oxygen atom? I’m not a chemist but I didn’t think you could make assumptions about the effect of a substance in the way you describe. Am I missing something?
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Hydrogen peroxide is H2O2 (SMILES `OO`).

"Bleach" can refer to any chemical that makes things whiter. Common laundry bleach is usually a chlorine bleach, most often Sodium Hypochlorite (NaClO, SMILES `[Na+].[O-]Cl`).

There are a bunch of other bleaches[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach