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jogger_please ago

Chlorine dioxide is a gas. You can't inject a gas unless you like embolisms.

Blackwargreymon ago

I see the boiling point you mention, but they show tablets of it right there on that page. Apparently there is a way to solidify it.

jogger_please ago

The only way is to react it with something, like a metal to make something like calcium hypochlorite. You can find bags of that at the pool store. But then it would be referred to as calcium hypochlorite and not chlorine dioxide. Something's fishy about the article.

Blackwargreymon ago

Isn't it plain chlorine dioxide in the tablets though? I mean, everyone talking about MMS (chlorine dioxide if I'm not mistaken) doesn't mention it's in gas form.

jogger_please ago

You can't make gas into a tablet.

Blackwargreymon ago

They make water purification tablets with Chlorine Dioxide as the ingredient. It shows a picture on the very page you mentioned.

jogger_please ago

That's what the caption says, but it doesn't matter what it says. You can't make a tablet out of air. It was apparently a poor choice of page since it contradicts itself. The text reads, "Chlorine dioxide is a yellow to reddish-yellow gas that can decompose rapidly in air. Because it is a hazardous gas, chlorine dioxide is always made at the location where it is used." That doesn't jive with tablets.

Blackwargreymon ago

These water purification tablets with chlorine dioxide as the active ingredient are available everywhere. I'm not interested in debating it any longer.

jogger_please ago

It's not a debate. Chlorine dioxide is a gas just as much as oxygen is. A tablet labeled "chlorine dioxide" is as much quackery as a tablet labeled "oxygen."

Blackwargreymon ago

Interesting. In reading about sodium chlorite it appears that in the presence of chlorine it forms chlorine dioxide. Sodium dichloroisocyanurate slowly releases chlorine. I haven't found anything that explicitly says that's how these tablets form chlorine dioxide, but that's all in the literature. Sodium chlorite will also produce chlorine dioxide in a low-pH solution (combined with an acid). I can't tell from what you said if you already knew the tablets generated chlorine dioxide from these ingredients, but that would have been helpful at the beginning!