Re: finally !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as I was saying, and will return to expand the explanation:

Ok FINALLY, something I can debate. You are confused and have to understand what it is you are talking about:

You are confusing Sodium chlorite (MMS without the citric acid ), with Chlorous acid, HClO2 (which is only stable at low concentrations).

1.) Chlorous acid HClO2 can't be used concentrated, so it is not a commercial product.

2.) Sodium Chlorite NaClO2 is not Sodium Chloride NaCl.

3.) Sodium Chlorite NaClO2 is stable and inexpensive enough to be commercially available (the other is not). It is derived indirectly from sodium chlorate, NaClO3. First, the explosively unstable gas chlorine dioxide, ClO2 is produced by reducing sodium chlorate in a strong acid solution with a suitable reducing agent (for example, sodium chloride, sulfur dioxide, or hydrochloric acid).

4.) Sodium chlorite (stabilized oxygen) is highly alkaline, the opposite of acid. When neutralized it becomes unstable and begins to release, not oxygen but chlorine dioxide. The chlorine dioxide ion are already neutral which for oxygen is a minus 2 state. The oxygen ion cannot oxidize anything; it can only become a part of the water in the body and cannot be utilized for any kind of oxygen. The chlorine ion basically becomes a minute amount of table salt which has no power either. Both now have no charge for any kind of oxidation, so you see, it is the CHLORINE DIOXIDE that does all the work but only because it supplies ELECTRONS (not oxygen) !! Again, the Chlorine dioxide ion is the oxidizer, not the oxygen (if that were the case, several deep breaths of air would cause great injury ... the little explosions that they are saying would erupt inside our bodies... lol). Check your chemistry book. Any reaction in which electrons are transferred is considered oxidation - brb again ... dindin calls Tweet