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How do you handle nitric acid safety?

Updated: 9/21/2023
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I'm assuming it's concentrated acid so...

Gloves, gloves, gloves! That stuff will literally burn the skin off your bones.

Avoid contact with water if at all possible, gives off a lot of heat.

It can dissolve a lot of materials, particularly metals. And gives off a thick brown poisonous gas when it reacts with metals (NO2, nitrogen dioxide).

Goggles are a must, use a fume hood at all times.

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