(Help!!!) (Platinum?) (Palladium)? (Copper?) (Rodium?) Stanous Chloride Test? Catalytic converter chlorine leach solution?
- Thread starter chris1977impala1
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Set things aside and study first, salts from PGM solutions are exceedingly toxic and needs proper protective gear and good lab hygiene to do.
And even then it is much better to smelt them than leach them.
Anyway, your pictures and description do not provide enough information to let us help you.
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Martijn
Well-known member
This means:
Look up the msds of every pgm chloride salt you may have created and follow cleanup directions with the appropriate protective measures to clean up the spills on that piece of wood and anywhere you spilled a drop. Avoid dust so keep it moist.
Then pack the wood in plastic and dispose as toxic waste.
A blood test might be a good idea if you touched any of it without gloves.
Then continue your study.
No amount of precious metal is worth your life.
Mucking around with PGMs without a proven plan. Got it. If you do not follow the advice of Martijn, you will kill yourself. Or worse, you may destroy enough function of your lungs, kidneys, or liver to the point of abject misery and debilitation for several years before your body does die.
Should you actually get yourself tested for exposure to the toxic salts you have created, be completely honest with ALL the medical professionals connected with your case.
Have fun.
Time for more coffee.
Should you actually get yourself tested for exposure to the toxic salts you have created, be completely honest with ALL the medical professionals connected with your case.
Have fun.
Time for more coffee.
chris1977impala1
New member
So I have a question, since I never made it to the point of actually dropping the salts from the solution. I only made it to the point of leaching I never went a step after that, is the solution still dangerous at the point of leaching as well or is it only when the Platinum salts are dropped? I'll be my fucking?
You dissolved the metals, then they become salts.
As dissolved salts it is in the most dangerous form.
chris1977impala1
New member
Oh my God, I literally had it on my skin multiple times and almost died when I accidentally inhaled the chlorine gas! What's going to happen to me?
Go to the doctor and tell him everything.
It will most likely be ok.
It is an accumulative "poison".
So each exposure will increase the danger of something going bad.
Chlorine gas was used as a weapon of war so it might be even worse.
