Back from my lovely hols in the tuscany mountains!
Just to clarify. I never denied that h202 is a powerful sanitizing agent. Its is used as such. It will definitely clean any surface, tankers included. It is found in first aid kits to clean wounds and it works brilliantly. Just like iodine for example. Bacterial and living cells die in its presence because it rips cell membranes and proteins apart. Its one of the strongest sources of free radicals. So, if you believe in the health providing benefits of 'anti-oxidants' then drinking one of the most potent sources of 'oxidants' requires some thought...
So, h202 does have medical uses. It has a long history of cleaning and killing bugs. And it is a bleaching agent precisely because it is a powerful oxidizing agent, it will turn your hair and cloths white (and has long been used as a bleach- 'peroxide blond' - 'bleach blond'?..for example.)
Sodium hypochlorite (not chloride- that's a powerful alkali!) and ammonia are common bleaching agents, h202 is just as common. Each work via different chemistry. They teach this around age 14 in UK school chemistry lessons. Have a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide
My only objection was about drinking, inhaling or injecting it, which is the noveau fad.. Iodine cleans cuts, but I wouldn't inhale it or drink it. But the same logic one should use antibiotics to clean the loo. Antibiotics work great at cleaning up infections but they wont clean your bathroom or milk tankers very well.Toilet duck is a fantastic sanitizer but not a good treatments for asthma.
As a mouthwash, h202 will definitely sanitize your mouth. Its also widely used to whiten teeth these days, a process known as 'bleaching'. Its breaks down the stains in the enamel and whitens the teeth (but also makes them a lot more porous).
People may say it works for them, but some people also say they drink and smoke all their lives and it 'did them no harm'. Hardly a basis for health advice. But does it work for aids/HIV, Alzheimer, cancer (all cancers?), asthma, anaemia, liver cirrhosis or Parkinsonism? That's how it is being sold right now.
If you don't believe me, scroll down on this link from a website selling it (a commodity chemical sold at a premium high price). H202 being sold to treat 'altitude sickness'. Hmmm....
http://www.food-grade-hydrogen-peroxide.co.uk/
Now, might those claims be a wee bit, well- over inflated? Is there no shred of skepticism here about any of this?
Do we have anyone here for whom drinking, inhaling or injecting h202 has actually treated Alzheimer's, AIDS, asthma or 'altitude sickness'? Let us hear your story.
And we scientists will not work under your duress any more. Try to drag ore out of the ground. Try to build a railway. Try to build a sky scraper. Or would you rather we left you alone? Perhaps its time we left you be and you would invent a new science. Good luck with that. Let us see your geniuses rise. You have no methods to fight us.
Good luck. Lick your wounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxMeLEoPa_o&feature=related
You have been bought and sold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZamzenkteTk&feature=related