How dangerous is Aqua regia
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Aqua Regia
The rational solution:
"If you don't know how to cook stay out of the kitchen".
Chemistry and in particular, reactive chemicals like acids are absolutely dangerous and are known to be deadly. Yes, be paranoid.
IMHO soliciting an answer to "how much?" with reference to exposure to acids including AR has no correct answer. The correct answer if there is one - is "zero"!
Never sniff acids or any other chemicals that may be toxic. Read about and learn about chemistry. Heed all of the cautions! Be smart. Grow smarter!
- Geowizard
"If you don't know how to cook stay out of the kitchen".
Chemistry and in particular, reactive chemicals like acids are absolutely dangerous and are known to be deadly. Yes, be paranoid.
IMHO soliciting an answer to "how much?" with reference to exposure to acids including AR has no correct answer. The correct answer if there is one - is "zero"!
Never sniff acids or any other chemicals that may be toxic. Read about and learn about chemistry. Heed all of the cautions! Be smart. Grow smarter!
- Geowizard
Martijn
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Or learn how to cook.
He's pointing out to Birtan Varol, who asked what AR meant, that the title of the thread is How dangerous is Aqua regia.
Dave
Aah, but it seemed to be directed to me.
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If you are worried about NOx fumes, use a scrubber. It's real easy to set up with some plastic tubing and some glass Ball jars. I use a two stage scrubber for NOx - first stage is for H2O2 to capture and convert NOx back into HNO3; second stage is for NaOH solution to catch any fugitive NOx not converted by the first step. See the attached pic. These gas scrubbers are in their gold refining configuration, but also double as air cleaners. I just dont have any picks of these in use as scrubbers. By using scrubbers with a closed reaction vessel, i produce exactly ZERO detectable NOx.
