I’ve got a clogged sink, and have been reading the labels on a bunch of different products lately. I’d always assumed that they were a strong acid of sorts, which would dissolve whatever sort of material was built up in the pipes. But I’ve noticed that a lot of these products specify that they’re non-corrosive, so I’m not sure what other sort of mechanism may be at play here.
They react with aluminium foil and make nice bombs when sealed inside a plastic bottle
This is the only thing I leaned in high school chemistry.
My teacher was also the football coach, though.
lmao, we used to call them “Works bombs” as a kid, because we’d use The Works cleaner for it.