If you don't want to do that, have some Calgonate gel on hand.
One person I met had to have his arm below the elbow amputated after a pin prick in his glove caused an exposure. The exposure was not painful or noticed to begin with, but by the next day he had a severe problem. Despite receiving treatment after that the problems kept getting worse.
“They pose a potentially lethal chemical hazard to anyone working on or near EHVs.”
And if I remember right, some of them have been know to self ignite while in peoples’ garages.
so what about all the cordless battery tools that most households own these days? Lithium-ion batteries
Or is this not a risk also?
Spent my career in the semiconductor industry. One of the first things I learned about was the dangers and proper handling of HF. Never got a burn but I knew several that got mild to severe HF burns.
That sounds like it creates some kind of self sustaining reaction With something inside the body.
Has anybody thought about that?
If you don't want to do that, have some Calgonate gel on hand.
What is the form of fluoride that they like to poison water supplies with?
45 posts and not one mention that HF acid is commonly used in wheel cleaners.
a) the physical destruction caused by the chemical reaction between the acid and the tissues of the body. This will follow the same rules as all other chemical reactions, so 1 gram of acid will reduce 1 or a few grams of tissue to other chemical substances.
b) many of the newly created chemical substances will be highly toxic, and will be spread through the body by the blood and lymphatic system, just like snake venom.
It's the toxic byproducts that can kill from a small spill or cause sepsis-like blood clotting in a limb resulting in amputation, again just like snake venom.
Isn’t this the stuff that’s only neutralized by calcium? Which is why it continues to burn and eat away all the way to the bone?
H2S?
Isn’t most of this stuff made in China?
Disposable workers unite!
...because no-one has ever died from a gasoline engine?
I mean, the risk described is real, and will grow as the cars become more common. But 33,000 people die from operating cars each year, and has even one person died from HF exposure to date? Imagine all the folk around here riding their horses, when someone comes along talking about making horseless carriages that rely on controlled gasoline explosions!
I used to work in the North Slope oil fields in Alaska as a medic. Encountered one fellow who had been mixing a solution of HF and HCl with inadequate PPE a few months earlier. He managed to soak his lower pant legs and thought nothing of it due to inadequate training. The acid started dissolving the tissue between his ankle bones and his Achilles tendon. By the time it was arrested after hospitalization, multiple surgeries, and lots of IV Calcium he had developed a permanent hole in his lower leg. When I encountered him he was back working for the same company. That’s when I realized he was none too bright.
There must be a very high risk of contamination in the event of a severe automobile accident/impact that damages the battery: the potential for the stuff to be sprayed for some distance; not to mention the consequences of it coming into contact with hot surfaces.