One mistake changed my life

[kurtak]

HCl fumes are the 'least' dangerous, but they'll still corrode your lungs!

I have to disagree - did you read the post in the story I provided a link to --------

https://goldrefiningforum.com/threads/safety-learned-the-hard-way.22914/

Copied from that story -------

And he tells me - I was using HCl to dissolve away the SS (no H2O2) then AR on the foils & SMB to drop the gold

It was taking huge amounts of HCl to get rid of the SS & in the process I have "ruined everything" in my garage & even stuff in the house & it sent me to the hospital twice - once because of breathing problems from the fumes & once because I got acid in my eyes from the mist when looking in on a reaction

Also in my MANY YEARS of refining I have been able to tolerate a small whiff of nitric fumes whereas even just a small whiff of HCl will make me cough --- every time !

Kurt

 

[Alondro]

With the possible exception of a little bird that stop to dip his beak!

I have yet to see a bird that dumb that it hops up to a hot, steaming beaker belching irritating fumes!

They tend to avoid it like the plague.

 

[Yggdrasil]

I have yet to see a bird that dumb that it hops up to a hot, steaming beaker belching irritating fumes!

They tend to avoid it like the plague.

Mosquitos don't mind, even if I do mind the Mosquitos

 

[anachronism]

With the possible exception of a little bird that stop to dip his beak!

That's Darwin at work haha.

 

[anachronism]

Mosquitos don't mind, even if I do mind the Mosquitos

For some odd reason spiders love cyanide solutions.

 

[Alondro]

Mosquitos don't mind, even if I do mind the Mosquitos

I don't mind mosquitoes self-deleting! ;D