The Physics of Bleach

In a recent viral video from YouTube user Crazy Russian Hacker, the eponymous hacker Taras Kul makes the bewildering decision to top off a glass of coca-cola with an (un)healthy helping of bleach. The effect is almost instantaneous, and visually striking enough to be surprising, as you can see starting at the 28 second mark in the video below. As the soda reacts with the bleach, its characteristic brown opacity begins to vanish, fading quickly to a sickly yellow-green before eventually turning c...