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Originally Posted by LewisM
The pedant I am insists on correcting this, as bleach is typically sodium hypochlorite  |
Totally agree!
My first job out of high school was working at a cheese factory. Used Sodium Hydroxide as a cleaning agent for washing out the vats. Sodium Hypochlorite as both a final (after cleaning) and pre-rinse sterilising agent.
I say that he absolute best thing you can do if you get any general purpose (around the home) cleaning chemical in your eyes is use milk. As has been mentioned, water dilutes the chemical which is why you should rinse your eyes for a good half an hour. It doesn't wash it away in any reasonable amount of time. Milk on the other hand is completely harmless to get in your eyes but it has fats and proteins. These are highly reactive so what you'll be doing is giving the chemical something OTHER than your eyes to feed on. Instead of just diluting the chemical, it removes it as it will break down the fats and proteins.