[King Herald]

Originally Posted by mothmon ↗

.....What I needed was the special Hollywood-brand alien acid for that

Hydrofluoric acid, it's what they use to etch glass.

[William May]

Originally Posted by GODREKR ↗

So would he survive in this scenario?

It looks like he was showered with the nitric acid. I imagine his death was terrible. With it sprayed all over him, it would have been like the Nazi in "Raiders Of The Lost Arc", with his body smoking and dissolving from the first moment of contact. He was probably blinded instantly, in incredible pain as his skin just melted away, and then he fell off the truck. I think he would have been better off being electrocuted. At least that's fast. Nitric acid is like battery acid, but 1000 times more potent. And then when he fell off the truck, he was laying in puddles of it.

[t00legittoquit]

Probably septic fumes lol

[William May]

Originally Posted by mothmon ↗

It supposedly is extremely caustic on flesh and can cause third-degree chemical burns. When I was a kid and had a chemistry set, my mother's bf sneaked some nitric acid (along with some sulfuric acid) home for me from his industrial printing shop. I saw all the movies with mad scientists and hapless but insane opera house composers getting turned into monsters by nitric acid mishaps but when I poured a little onto a wooden table as an experiement, expecting a great hissing of sound accompanied by acid vapor rising and a hole burning right through the table within 10 seconds, nothing happened but a stain and the only thing fuming about it was my mom. What I needed was the special Hollywood-brand alien acid for that

Yours must have been a very weak mix. I have spilled droplets on my workbench, and it smokes and starts digging for China. It's VERY aggressive, and if all it did was leave a mark, then it had to have been seriously diluted. I wear nitrile gloves, and have never been burned by it, but I wouldn't want to ever find out. Applying baking soda and water would stop it after a while, but it took multiple applications, and I ran the stuff off the table into a 5 gallon bucket that also had baking soda and water in it. It was a mess. I pulled everything off the workbench and set it down on other places to clear the workbench. I think you can probably see it work on some Youtube videos.

I remember when chemistry sets actually had REAL CHEMICALS in them. You could do some damage!

[docfr8]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

I remember when chemistry sets actually had REAL CHEMICALS in them. You could do some damage!

I remember those.. I used to add more chemicals from dad's garage to the kit. Also dad's empty cigar tubes made great experiments test tubes

[kellyhound]

I see the Mentos Cola experiment has finally reached China

[mothmon]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

I remember when chemistry sets actually had REAL CHEMICALS in them. You could do some damage!

I can only imagine what chemistry sets for kids are like now; probably with nothing more potent than boric acid you soak your feet in. I had the most fun with things you could get to burn like eternal flame, usually sulfur mixed with potassium purple (not the real name but it was purple and made a pretty purple flame). Then my brother gave me a box of lab chemicals he stole from Clark University when he was a student there. He drew Skull and Crossbones on the labels of the more deadly ones so I'd get the picture.

One was silver nitrate (I think) and it had CAUSTIC written on it. I made a solution out of it, spilled some on my hand, and I had a big brown patch between thumb and forefinger and my hand smelled like potatoes for a week. There was another bottle of a bright orange powder that had Mercury something on it. My brother said "If you accidentally swallow some, you will die a lingering, slow death that takes months to die." Being a clueless kid, it's a miracle I didn't accidentally chemically dismember my member with that shit.

[kellyhound]

On November 13, after a video related to "A tank of gas was suspected to be leaking from a truck on a certain highway and yellow smoke was emitted" appeared online, the relevant departments immediately sent people to the scene to investigate and deal with the incident.

After investigation, the tanker in the video was a vehicle of a hazardous chemicals transportation company in Wuji County.

The transported cargo was "water purifier" (ferric chloride, a corrosive substance), (The primary use of ferric chloride is to remove impurities in water and for wastewater treatment. Ferric chloride is also one of the few water treatment chemicals that can sequester odors.) and it was loaded with 30 tons.

At around 7 a.m., the vehicle was traveling from south to north to a location 500 meters southbound from the Gaocheng East Expressway exit smoke-like gas leaked from the valve on the top of the vehicle.

When the escort came forward to check the cause, the valve was opened and columnar gas was sprayed out. No casualties were caused. The escort then promptly closed the valve to a safe state and drove to the destination, where unloading was completed at around 9 a.m.

The cause of the leak was initially determined to be blockage of the valve vent hole.

Our bureau has launched an investigation into the companies and vehicles involved and dealt with them in accordance with the law. At the same time, we will draw inferences from one example, strengthen measures, and strengthen the intensity and frequency of inspections of dangerous goods transport vehicles to prevent similar problems from happening again.

moved to accidents section.

[v1r]

How do you even survive that.

[mothmon]

tbh, I would never trust China and its CCP-controlled news media when it comes to reporting the number of casualties in deadly or non-deadly accidents. I'm sorry but that looked fatal for the driver.

A correction I made above to my earlier post was that the solution I accidentally spilled on my hand as a kid monkeying around with chemicals was silver nitrate (caustic), not potassium nitrate (simple saltpeter that you could probably take a bath in with no ill effects). My hand looked like this for a week afterwards (see photo below, courtesy of wikipedia). Imagine what the nitric acid I had could do?