I went to a safety trainning course
for this new job in Runcorn. They work with 100% pure HF here.

A drop the size of a quarter of your palm (around 10ml) on your skin, will be absorbed to your blood, and will pass to your bones. The HF combines with the Calcium in your bones, destroying them. In half an hour, it can destroy the bones of a male adult. Once it's in your blood, there's nothing you can do to stop it.

That's something I don't want to try.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:30, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

HF?

(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:32, Reply)

hydrofluoric acid?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:34, Reply)

Yes, that one
Even when very diluted it'll burn your skin and the vapours can make you blind. It's nice stuff.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:38, Reply)

"the vapours can make you blind"
Turning Japanese?
(Cave Duck, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:42, Reply)

Why?

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:43, Reply)

Sorry Aberracion - It's a rather poor music related gag.
A band called The Vapors had a song in the 80s called Turning Japanese which was (supposedly) about wanking and according to the old myth wanking makes you go blind.
(Cave Duck, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 13:01, Reply)

Ah!
I know the song. I didn't know it was the Vapors, that's what got me confused. I didn't know it was about wanking, I thought it was about travelling.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 18 Aug 2010, 13:06, Reply)

Haha

( thealternativefact, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:45, Reply)

I've got something special lined up for you
If you're mean to me, it gets unleashed.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:47, Reply)

You, boys, you
You're talking riddles to me.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)

Clendrix and Al have been horrible to me
Always threatening violence. I have something lined up to get revenge, if they don't change their ways.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 13:12, Reply)

Hydrofluoric acid
Some info:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:35, Reply)

Oh yeah, I've worked with it before.
Never at that concentration though.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:39, Reply)

The safety video was very scary
They showed us pictures of burns of HF at lower concentrations, and you could see the deformed bones throug the holes on the skin.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:44, Reply)

No, a couple of drops on a hankie is usually enough.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:47, Reply)

Oh there was a QOTW answer about an accident with HF
Made me very very scared.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:45, Reply)