What are health risks of sulfuric acid?

Answer 1

As with any acid, it's not very safe to be around unless it's diluted. Sulfuric Acid (H2SO4) can burn the skin very quickly unless diluted in large amounts of water for a certain period of time. As you can imagine, sulfuric acid isn't safe to touch let alone drink or any form of direct contact.

My teacher (and I'm sure others) have actually had a little sign in the lab stations warning off the danger off sulfuric acid. Definitely teaches a good lesson on being careful when around it.

Johnny was a chemist's son,

But Johnny is no more.

For what he thought was H2O,

Was H2SO4.