Hydrogen Peroxide

pwkarch

Gentlemen

Halftime in the NFL game I am watching, so I pop on to Facebook just to see what is new. For the second day in a row I see a post regarding Hydrogen Peroxide and its' multitude of uses. The ones that caught my attention were the items relative to using it as a cleaner. Has anyone ever tried, or know whether this might be a way to clean pipe stems of oxidation? And if so in the positive, can the stems be "soaked" like can be done in "Oxiclean"? I know both are "oxygenated" (H2O2) and might be very similar (many, many years since my last chemistry class). In the past I have soaked stems in "Oxyclean" but they still require quite a bit of work afterward. Always looking for shortcuts.

motie2

I put HYDROGEN PEROXIDE AS PIPE CLEANER into Google and learned that it is commonly used for cleaning glass paraphernalia or what tne kids call dope pipes.

mfresa

Peroxide will oxidize whatever it touches...

motie2

Except glass

AnantaAndroscoggin

This is the kind of oxidation that, if you could increase the rate it happens at many-fold, would be called "on fire."

motie2

Works well on cuts 

buflosab

It can be used as a mouth rise also, which is what I use it for.

motie2

Dilute!    Straight hydrogen peroxide is too harsh for tooth enamel, especially where it has worn thin.

mapletop

Consumer (drugstore) concentration of hydrogen peroxide is about 3%, HTC (high test peroxide) at 70+% works quite well as rocket fuel when mixed with, well a lot of different things like LNG, propane,kerosene etc....

I would never use it on a vulcanite pipe stem.

I did not know it attacked enamel but then an oxidizer is an oxidizer

buflosab

Thanks @motie2, never heard that before, but have taken your advise.