Bleach and Vinegar

Julie and John just moved to a new apartment. Julie is planning to clean the kitchen and wonders if she should use vinegar or bleach. John notes that it may be more effective to use both at the same time and recommends using that solution for cleaning. Julie is suspicious of this idea. She notes that vinegar contains acetic acid (weak acid) and bleach contains sodium hypochlorite (strong oxidizer). She wonders how these compounds will act when combined.

Explore properties of acetic acid and sodium hypochlorite and explain why they are used as cleaning and disinfectant agents.
Identify other acids and oxidizers routinely used for cleaning purposes.
Determine whether Julie should follow the recommendation provided by John. You will need to write an equation for the reaction between acetic acid and sodium hypochlorite. Identify products of the reaction and discuss their safety.

Your paper should be 1-2 pages in length and conform to APA guidelines in the CSU Global Writing Center. Items that should be included, at a minimum, are a title page, an introduction, a body which answers the questions posed in the problem, and a conclusion paragraph that addresses your findings and what you have determined from the data and your analysis. As with all written assignments, you should have in-text citations and a reference page too. Please include any tables of calculations, calculated values, and graphs associated with this problem in the body of your assignment response. Your reference section should include at least one peer-reviewed, scholarly reference.