What is the effect of mixing bleach and gasoline?

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Bleach is a powerful oxidizer. This is how it is able to whiten clothes: bleach oxidizes chromophores, making them white.Gasoline, of course, needs oxygen to burn. When you add a powerful oxidizer like bleach to a powerful fuel like gasoline, you get a potent mix. It creates dangerously unstable peroxides, and if you light it, watch out for the big boom (particularly if you have it spread out over a large area). Hint: if you are going for a big boom, then put the bleach in a bowl, and let it evaporate outside. The powder left behind is an immensely powerful oxidizing agent. Just don't let any contaminants get into it. Mix that with fuel, and BOOM! Nearly burned my face off when I did that...

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