• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I was just thinking, how is anything that can eat into glass not going to be corrosive to skin?

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      1 day ago

      hydrofluoric acid HF eats glass but if it gets on your skin in smaller amounts it will mostly just penetrate it, leaving it mildly irritated for some time. There it starts dissolving calcium from your bones and attacking nerves. HF be nasty