Why does Dettol turn cloudy?

[Juzz976]

Whats this water shyte u fellas keep referring to?

Stephen

H2O its some sort of polar solvent widely used for just about everything.

[Juzz976]

Very similar though, a substituted aromatic. Esters usually smell sweet and nice (many perfumes and fragramnces are based on esters). Dettol doesn't exactly smell nice.
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If you would add common manufactured esters are sweet smelling and usually an ester is desernable by smell not notifiably a sweet one. Then yeh I guess one could make an assumption that there is a possibility of similarity.

[LBD]

And 50/50 dettol and olive or baby oil is a good sand fly repellant

[paddy]

. . .Dettol doesn't exactly smell nice

What do you mean? I've always loved the smell of Detol. Besides, after soaking overnight, my beach sandals smell like Detol which is much nicer than what they smelt like before. :-)

[peasea]

I don't know if we have any chemists here, but I do know we have a lot of know-it-alls. So here is my question: Why does Detol turn cloudy when you add it to water?

The two compounds are at odds with each other. When the Dettol is added to the water all the protons and neutrons start arguing, creating friction, and smoke is released. It's the smoke that you can see. All smoke bombs contain Dettol and water.

[Pixie]

ALL BULLSHIT!

It's the ghosts of all the billions of bacteria,of which Detol kills 99%,putting on their white sheets with the eyeholes,that make the water go cloudy.

[Ronin]

ALL BULLSHIT!

It's the ghosts of all the billions of bacteria,of which Detol kills 99%,putting on their white shhets with the eyeholes,that make the water go cloudy.

best.answer.yet.

[Skyryder]

Wrong...a wee drop releases flavours and odors...

Actually the world is pretty evenly split on the subject...

Yep even some of the connoisseurs advocate a little water.


But the 'tasters' never do. I'm with these guys. Why add water when those that 'tast' for quality don't.


Skyryder

[peasea]

ALL BULLSHIT!

It's the ghosts of all the billions of bacteria,of which Detol kills 99%,putting on their white shhets with the eyeholes,that make the water go cloudy.

White sheets with eyeholes? Are they KKK members?

[LBD]

Yep even some of the connoisseurs advocate a little water.


But the 'tasters' never do. I'm with these guys. Why add water when those that 'tast' for quality don't.


Skyryder

Call me a wouse if you like, but I don't taste for quality, I taste to enjoy...And almost finished my 18yo Banahabbein...ready to start a McKillops choice from another Isaly distillery...

Tastes and smells nothing like Dettol either

[george formby]

The active ingredient of "Dettol" is alkyl dimethyl benzylammonium chloride, which is a miscible compound, or in laymans terms, a water soluble oil.

It is VERY poisonous to many animals, and should never be used on cats, or anything that a dog might chew.

On a good note...here in Qld we use it to kill Cane toads...it stops them in their tracks! and not as messy as the traditional "golf" method.

You serious? I put dettol in the water when i rinse the dog off, kills the fleas, either that or the fleas flee.

[tri boy]

I had sex with an unclean octopus once, (okay then, three times).
The Doc said "dip it in Dettol". The octopus didn't survive the dipping.

[Pixie]

White sheets with eyeholes? Are they KKK members?

Ghosts wear sheets.Haven't you ever read a comic or seen a cartoon?

[Skyryder]

Call me a wouse if you like, but I don't taste for quality, I taste to enjoy...And almost finished my 18yo Banahabbein...ready to start a McKillops choice from another Isaly distillery...

Tastes and smells nothing like Dettol either

Quality and tast are the same when it comes to single malts. That's where the 'enjoyment' comes from. Nope ya not a wouse no whiskey drinker is a wouse.

Some are known by other names but they usually drink the blends.


Skyryder

[Pussy]

Very similar though, a substituted aromatic. Esters usually smell sweet and nice (many perfumes and fragramnces are based on esters). Dettol doesn't exactly smell nice.

Butyl ester 2,4-D doesn't smell nice!
Whenever I have sprayed prickles with it, I have tended to "wear" the aroma of it for some time afterwards. Even my cats don't want to know me!