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Goldmember123

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Well this is what you dont want to do is wear the wrong gloves and get acid burns on your hands like this ! I was. Using gloves made of some kind of cotton and i should have used rubber gloves ! Lesson learned and remembered !
 

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That is a lesson that you should never have to learn. Perhaps it is time to study everything in the Safety section of the Forum, then evaluate your setup with that newfound knowledge.

Yes, I am being blunt.

Time for more coffee.
 
Besides the mild acid burns my stripping the mother boards of the gold foils is coming along great i had about 11 pounds of mother but only gold fingers and other parts of gold plated mother boards i trimmed them up real good no solder in it and i put like one liter of nitric acid and a half gallon of sulfuric acid and its stripping the gold off just fine i just shake the plastic bin up very carefully every 4 hours for about 5 minutes streight and its taking so far one night and one day ! Anybody got any tips ?
 

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First, learn grammar and sentence structure. My brain hurts when attempting to translate that into useful data. Second, I see a lot of very low grade boards in your mix. Best advice: sell your boards when you have enough to warrant the effort, then buy silver or gold. I get all mine for free and sell over 98% of them whole. Most of the rest will have parts harvested if doing so results in an upgrade, then they are sold. I keep VERY little to harvest precious metals.
 
Just curious of what was the acid with the burn. There are some out there that don't just burn the stratum corneum. It gets absorbed into deeper tissue.

One incident off the top of my head..I knew someone that dropped some sulfuric and it went into their boots.. They got burned, but after the wounds started healing they thought things were fine... which later they lost their foot. What happened was the acid was absorbed and the wounds healed over entrapping the acid. Over the 6 months they ended up getting sharp unbearable pains, and the foot basically started dieing. From what turned into gangrene.

I'm not picking either so please don't take it that way. It could be for whoever reads it. Safety is a big thing that should be blunt just like galenrog is stating.
 
One point to note in your process mixing nitric and sulphuric creates a very dangerous mix that really isn’t needed and shaking it should be a very big no no :shock:
 
Thank you guys so much im never gonna use nitric and sulfuric together again ! I mixed in the sulfuric acid in last and i stepped away real quick and staayed a good distance from it and made sure not to breath any of the fumes ! and i did it inside one of those big tall plastic barrels. I stayed away from it for like 7 hours then i pored about 3 gallons of water in it and then let it chill. An hour later i came back with a sweater tired nicely around my face and i held my breath and i transferred the motherboards and diluted nitric amd sulferic mix and transferred them from the barrel to the plastic totes you see in the pics and put the lid on and shook them back and forth with the lid on buti i wasnt wearing the right gloves and when i was poring it from the big barrel to the plastic totes i got it on m y hands ! Is there any remedies for cleansing your body of Acid ?
 
Goldmember, using cloth gloves on your hands and a sweater tied around your face will not protect you. If you continue as you are, you will not survive for long.

Please educate yourself by studying this forum for at least a year or two before you try anything else. You are putting yourself, your family, and your neighbors at risk. Please stop.

Dave
 
“Are there any remedies cleansing your body of acids?”

In short, yes. The least painful is death. Long answer, see your doctor NOW! Tying a sweater around your face? Seriously? Sufficient acid fumes of any kind in lungs and the best thing in life will be death. The worst is damaging your lungs to the point of not quite killing you.

A frequent flyer at the hospital my wife works at damaged her lungs in an industrial leak of acid fumes several years ago. High volume supplemental oxygen forever. Dozens of surgeries in the past 20+ years. Keep up what you are doing and you can have the same kind of life.

Time for more coffee.
 
I apologize for my poor grammer ! I write the way i write but from the responses i get i can tell that most people can understand me just fine but if my grammer is to much for you to decode then i undrstand ! You dont even have to respond as you already know ! Im just here to get useful information about how to extract gold and im trying to find the better solutions and view the better aspects of this situation ! Thats why i listen to all your guys feed back ! Thank you guys !!
 
And i appreciate we got allot of smart brains in here galenrog being one of them ! And i Love positive criticism ! But i wont be here much longer anyway ! This gold extracting project was only a temp thing to try and see if i could get up some free gold for my wifes jewelry business with out having to buy gold but i eneded up spending allot on time and equipment for extracting the gold ! And i did get some gold but it wasnt free it cost me time sweat cuts on my hands burns and yapping from my wife and complaints from neighbors over the smell, so for me personally i did learn some things it was fun unusual and hazardous ! I even learned things that were not directly related to this field ! So thank all you Einstein's for the Good advice you gave ! Its been a Real one ! Peace !
 
That is completely ok if that is your "goal"
But if you look from the other side of the bottle.
You have now learned a very valuable lesson, what about using it for something good.
Up to you mate....

PS!
You will "never" become rich this way :mrgreen: :D

Processing this kind of material this is.
 
One point to note in your process mixing nitric and sulphuric creates a very dangerous mix that really isn’t needed and shaking it should be a very big no no :shock:
I'm just studing these things on this thread and this sounds like something i should know more about.
 
Just curious of what was the acid with the burn. There are some out there that don't just burn the stratum corneum. It gets absorbed into deeper tissue.

One incident off the top of my head..I knew someone that dropped some sulfuric and it went into their boots.. They got burned, but after the wounds started healing they thought things were fine... which later they lost their foot. What happened was the acid was absorbed and the wounds healed over entrapping the acid. Over the 6 months they ended up getting sharp unbearable pains, and the foot basically started dieing. From what turned into gangrene.

I'm not picking either so please don't take it that way. It could be for whoever reads it. Safety is a big thing that should be blunt just like galenrog is stating.
There has to be more to the story physiologically… There has to be some sort of vascular compromise of the leg, you wouldn’t have a trapped collection of acid under the skin with healing over top, that just wouldn’t happen.

I’ve read a lot of the posts about danger… One thing I think is really interesting is we talk a lot about the burns from sulfuric acid or the poisonous fumes from nitric acid… But chlorine gas is the most dangerous of all of them as far as I can tell. The parts per million required to cause immediate respiratory failure is scary to me, that’s why I haven’t used it.

The thing about wearing gloves is… Especially if you use some sort of blue nitrile gloves they will show you how many little tiny drops of things you get on your hands without knowing… Peacemaker is right most caustic liquids can penetrate through all seven layers of the skin and into the dermal plexus. The type of skins on your palms and soles of the feet probably would be slightly more resistant just because of the thickness and the glabrous skin… But the rest…forearms, back of the hands, fingernails are all great places for stuff to enter your system. I have seen sreetips mention platinosis several times, The medical literature is pretty sparse on this condition but it sounds awful.
 
Goldmember, using cloth gloves on your hands and a sweater tied around your face will not protect you. If you continue as you are, you will not survive for long.

Please educate yourself by studying this forum for at least a year or two before you try anything else. You are putting yourself, your family, and your neighbors at risk. Please stop.

Dave

Well this is what you dont want to do is wear the wrong gloves and get acid burns on your hands like this ! I was. Using gloves made of some kind of cotton and i should have used rubber gloves ! Lesson learned and remembered !
 
There has to be more to the story physiologically… There has to be some sort of vascular compromise of the leg, you wouldn’t have a trapped collection of acid under the skin with healing over top, that just wouldn’t happen.

I’ve read a lot of the posts about danger… One thing I think is really interesting is we talk a lot about the burns from sulfuric acid or the poisonous fumes from nitric acid… But chlorine gas is the most dangerous of all of them as far as I can tell. The parts per million required to cause immediate respiratory failure is scary to me, that’s why I haven’t used it.

The thing about wearing gloves is… Especially if you use some sort of blue nitrile gloves they will show you how many little tiny drops of things you get on your hands without knowing… Peacemaker is right most caustic liquids can penetrate through all seven layers of the skin and into the dermal plexus. The type of skins on your palms and soles of the feet probably would be slightly more resistant just because of the thickness and the glabrous skin… But the rest…forearms, back of the hands, fingernails are all great places for stuff to enter your system. I have seen sreetips mention platinosis several times, The medical literature is pretty sparse on this condition but it sounds awful.
Sounds like a secondary infection from the original wound. Wounds can heal over and infection still present. Even though the wound appears closed on the outside, the infection is still eating away on the inside. Sorry for the graphics but that's the way it works. It would have been an ulcerated abscess.
 
So inadequate debridement after original burn? but why would sterile acid introduce infection. It would only violate the tissue, and it must’ve got something important like blood supply. Diabetes maybe. Abscesses don’t really get ulcerated they cause ulcer from pressure necrosis of the skin. The sulfuric acid may have caused the initial injury… But I would assume he lost a limb from pre-existing micro vascular disease or incomplete debridement.
 
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