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When acid comes in to contact with skin why do you rinse the area with water?
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Adding water to the affected area dilutes or washes off the acid.
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If you spill acid on your skin why should you rinse it with water?
Water removes the acid from body, but if it is sulphuric acid then do not rinse with water but first remove the acid by a dry cloth and then pour the water.
What is the safest and most effective emergency procedure to treat an acid splash on skin?
Rinse with cold water for an extended period of time. Make sure the area is completely flushed with LARGE amounts of water. This can mean several minutes of constant rinsing under a faucet or shower. If the acid comes in contact with the skin through clothes, remove any and all clothes with acid on them IMMEDIATELY (and minimize further contact with the acid-covered clothes) and rinse any skin that came in contact with acid through the clothes If you are unlucky enough to come in contact with hydrofluoric acid (HF), treat skin immediately with calcium gluconate and GO TO THE HOSPITAL. Hydrofluoric acid is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. It will not seriously affect your skin, but instead goes through your skin and destroys your bones. Not good. Very serious.
Is Hydrogen fluoride anhydrous the same as Hydrofluoric Acid?
No. Hydrofluoric acid is aqueous hydrogen fluoride (dissolved in water). Hydrogen fluoride will form hydrofluoric acid when it comes in contact with water.
Is CO2 a base?
It's not a base,it's an acid. CO2 in the air is actually neither a base or an acid. However, when it comes into contact with water it reacts to become H2CO3, which is an acid.
Why is the acid spill dangerous?
acid can eat away at whatever it comes in contact with
What do you rinse acid off your skin or clothes with?
Adding water to the affected area, whether skin or clothes, with water would dilute and wash the acid off.
What do you do if you get acid on your hands?
It depends upon nature of acid if it is sulphuric acid then soak with a dry cloth and then wash with water but if acid is hydrochloric or nitric then rinse with plenty of water and gently rub any skin cream having ferric chloride in it.
How do you clean sand colored pebble tech on the coping aarea?
A 10-20% solution of muriatic acid and bristle brush will clean the pebble tech. Be careful, the acid will burn if it comes in contact with skin or eyes. By 10% I mean 1 part acid to 9 parts cold water. Always add acid to water not water to acid due to unwanted thermal reaction.
What is it called when the acid mixes with water in the air and comes down?
Acid rain
How to clean a burette before fill it with hydrochloric acid?
Rinse with distilled water and blow dry with compressed air.
What is meant by a hydrophobic amino acid how does it behave around water?
A "hydrophobic" amino acid is an acid that "fears" water. When in contact with water, the hydrophobic amino acid will cause that section of protein to stay away from water.
When combining water and acid what comes first?
water does. if acid came first and you put water, it might splash and be very dangerous.
