This is a great video, very entertaining and informative! Frankly, I've always wondered how quickly it would cause damage, but never tried it, makes me feel a little more comfortable than I did (though of course we still need to respect such a powerful acid)!
Thanks. I have to use hydrochloric acid for the first time in my job, so this was very helpful. I have probably gone overboard with my PPE, but I guess more is better in this case.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that a safer way to handle it would be using pipettes. The open glass container allows it to release fumes and poses a perpetual risk for spills. Pouring leads to splashes and acid going places you didn't intend for it to go. If, heaven forbid, you'd accidentally spilled it down your clothes, that could have been worse. Overall, great video. Thanks for sharing and for putting your body in harm's way for our edutainment.
When I was a teenager I used to stuff 2 liter bottles with torn up aluminum foil then fill them about 1/3 of the way up with HCl, shake them, and run. After several minutes they inflate like a balloon and then explode, spraying a mist of aluminum chlorate and unreacted acid all over. Years later I learned that the gas it makes is hydrogen. Now I'm thinking of doing it again out on the salt flats, but this time in a ring of lit sparklers. Also, this is a cool video, and I always wondered what prolonged exposure to HCl would do. Now I know. Just don't try it with hydrofluoric acid, or you'll die. You will freaking die.
Honestly, this eases my mind a lot that I won't get a chemical burn right away if I happen to spill some acid on myself. The one thing I have thought of possibly doing with HCl if I ever get it is combining it with NaOH to form saltwater that I can then evaporate to form salt crystals, that way I can see what an acid base reaction is like and at the same time be producing something nontoxic. But, it still scares me a little, cause there's a lot that could go wrong with it. I could make a calculation error and either have too little NaOH or not enough, in which case evaporation would either produce dangerous to breathe vapors(HCl excess) or caustic salt(NaOH excess). I could put in the NaOH too fast and be producing dilute HCL vapors which could cause a burn similar to aspiration pneumonitis because I do not have a respirator or anything that would protect my lungs from acid vapors. That would probably be the worst outcome, pneumonitis from the vapors.
Came here after watching a tiktok meme where someone sprays a person with a garden hose, and it was edited with a caption saying it was HCL. Pretty funny tiktok but I was curious about the actual reaction time so thanks for this video! Its about what I expected in terms of reaction speed.
Thank you for doing this, I don’t feel so scared of it anymore lol I use it for pool pH and always thought it’d just eat my skin if I splash it on my 😂
I work with HCL and some other chemicals, is there a way we could talk on the phone or video chat about the chemicals I am around, my job says safety is #1 but I am here on youtube learning about this stuff, I heed some help
Hydrochloric acid is often used for rust removal on metal. I always see people dilute it a lot. Like a gallon of water to a small amount of acid. For this purpose, what ratio should I dilute it to?
I would recommend a 10 parts water and one part HCL solution. Also, it will corrode metal, so keep an eye on the rust and as soon as you can, remove the metal and wipe the solution off.
Is it safe to say that dropping a broken bottle of this stuff into a plastic 5 gallon bucket, pouring a box of baking soda, and then filling it with water will be a good way to neutralize the entire batch? About 2 liters of it. Also, what do you do with the end product in order to properly dispose of it?
@@DestructiveCreativity wow that's heavy! Since i just made a 4% solution and it irritated my skin after only a few seconds. Your skin is strong by the way 😄
bro , may i asking . if sniffing a few hydrocloric acid or aqua regia/ nitric acid ,., it it will be fine ? please answer my question ? cause im new .. zero knowledge
do you know any substance to prepend HCl from reaction to skin? BEFORE you touch acid? i mean you can eat raw chilipeper without burning your mouth by gargle olive oil before. So here the story. My teacher even he teaching chemical, he also a (shaman? cultivator? martial artist? immortal? ). He pour acid to glass breaker and put metal from bra and it completely disappear. Next he silently mumbling then pour acid to his palm and nothing happened, put another metal to acid in his palm and also disappear. He says as long you believe in lord you can be (strong/durable/endure/protected?) as him. So what substance he use? Or maybe he use othe rthan acid, is there any liquid like water that safe to skin but dissolve metal?
Thank you bro I'm just 11 yrs old and my dad use muriatic acid with 11 percent of HCL to clean the bathroom and if I was wondering if I'm getting old I might use it for cleaning purposes too and Im kinda scared that If I accidentally pour it to my skin it might burn and destroy my skin quickly
Eh diluted is mostly fine. Used in lab lessons in secondary schools a lot. I’ve spilled some of the school’s HCl all over my hand and not washed it off for 10-15min and felt literally nothing
Hello, what percent of HCl were you using for this video? Was this the commercial 37% HCl? I am trying to use your video for educational purposes. Thanks!
Got a bottle of this and was manufactured to the top top and sealed with plastic lid its hot and jest cut top open and it sprayed out right into my eye 29% acid it was in my eye for about 1 second before I had my eye under sink pressure water washed out for 15 20 mins and used eyedropper it swollen but, I can see all prase to yahuah
You should have said that you are using a concentration of 25%, I thought it was 100% until I read the comments Edit: you replied to one comment saying that you used a concentration of 25%, and to another comment saying that it was 36%. What was it? Edit 2: I realize now that 100% Hydrochloric Acid is a gas at room temperature
Fantastic video. But I have a new problem. The 37% HCL supplier used a foil/plastic seal. Though I removed it, there was non-visible residual aluminum on the underside of the cap which contaminated the remainder of the bottle (about 16oz). I’m not a chemist and can’t figure out how much baking soda is needed to neutralize it. Suggestions?
Ive seaeched google and it takes 42g soda baking soda to neutralize 500 ml of 1M HCl. 37% is 12M so my guess is 42 * 12 = 504g. (Im not a chemist either do not take this for granted)
if you work with hydrochloric acid you'll realize that it really doesn't do much unless you let it linger for a long time and even then, there are other acids that are a lot worse.
37% HCl hurts like a ton of stinging ants after 10 seconds tho. nothing too major but yea depending on the concentration overall tho HCl is not so bad but the fumes are something else!! those id say are really bad.
You are making this is video in cold places maybe acid takes longer times to react over your skin but what about if you do the same above normal room temperature as I am from India I am chemistry student and I have a not severe but little burn due phenol not from HCl, so kindly plz reply me does temperature makes any difference in acid reaction on our skin.
I’m afraid that I got a few drops of muriatic acid in my ear, and that it burned through my ear and got to my brain and that now I have brain damage. Is that even possible? Pretty much been driving myself nuts about it for a few weeks now.
Oh cool this reminds me of the Nile red video where he poured acids on his hand🙂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eyMR08ZVbNY.html Edit: The video isn’t by nile red because the video got re-uploaded by someone else
