Mixing Vinegar With Other Cleaners

Brought back a memory - when I was a child my Dad had me put baking soda into my model "volcano" and then at school for the big exhibition, i was to add some vinegar to make the "lava flow" out of the top of the model! It was great fun, and very dramatic! Thanks

Do not mix vinegar and baking soda as u will get caustic soda!

The foaming you saw is what happens when u mix and acid (vinegar) with an alkaline substance. Often cleaners are based with alkaline products like calcium carbonate (most cleansers, like comet). What happens is you end up with a neutral Ph, but it will not clean as well, as if it's alkaline or acid. Unless it didn't balance out.

Vinegar is just a mild acid. Mixing it with a detergent is not harmful in any way that I have ever heard of. Mixing it with ammonia is not harmful either, because ammonia is a base -- the opposite of an acid, and if you mixed enough vinegar with the ammonia, you would neutralize it, and you would have created salt water and carbon dioxide. Of course, if you were trying to clean anything with this mixture, you would have lost the cleaning power that these would have individually.

I don't know that there is any harm in mixing vinegar with bleach, but there is no advantage either. Bleach and ammonia will create chlorine gas -- a poison.

If you mix baking soda with vinegar, you also neutralize it, and create the salt water and carbon dioxide -- hence the bubbles.

Vinegar is a slight acid, and so sometimes it will corode metals if it is in contact with them for some time. It also corrodes marble and limestone. It is because of this corrosive power that it removes lime scale and the crude in you coffee maker or around your sink.

I never heard that you shouldn't mix vinegar with anything (for cleaning). I know there is a problem mixing other cleaners, and I think it's bleach and ammonia together that creates a toxic gas, but you should research this to confirm or find out the exact chemicals not to mix. But like I said, I haven't heard anything about the dangers of mixing vinegar with other cleaners. I'm curious to find out. (The bubbling was probably the vinegar mixing with a base, like baking soda.)