Peroxide and Oxygen

. I was watching a show on the history channel
over the weekend. It was called The Story
of US and they were talking about Andrew Carnegie and the development of the
Steel industry. Our whole external
outside world is structured by steel in skyscrapers and ships and cars and
machines and appliances. It’s really
amazing stuff, and all it is iron that been reacted with oxygen. Oxygen makes things happen. It makes things hotter. Our air is about 14 or 15 percent
oxygen. If it were any higher, our
environment would become very unstable and there would be lots of
explosion. Oxygen makes things
happen! For better or worse. An apple exposed to oxygen turn brown and
iron nail will turn orange. The same
History Channel show talked about the Statue of Liberty. If you’ve ever seen that Statue of Liberty or
a picture of it can see that the Statue of Liberty has this interesting green
color. Well apparently that wasn’t the
color of Statue of Liberty when she was first put up. That green color is the reaction of the
copper to…oxygen! Oxygen makes things
happen. That’s how peroxide works. Per-oxide refers to 2 pieces of oxygen. In fact, hydrogen per-oxide is nothing more
than plain old water with a piece of oxygen stuck on it. Water is H2O and Hydrogen Peroxide is H2O2. That extra oxygen makes peroxide much more active
than water. Oxygen makes things
happen. And as soon as the oxygen is
releases H202 turns into plain old H2O again and that’s why hydrogen peroxide
is so safe. But only at low
concentration, because oxygen makes things happen. It’s active.
So food grade Hydrogen Peroxide is only around 12- 35 percent AND YOU
PROBABLY want to dilute that. The
antiseptic that so effectively kills germs is 3% hydrogen peroxide.