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Acid Is Cool


Planetperson

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

I got to play with acid today in science. Yup, acid. Of course, there are some lab partners that you just can't trust with acid...

When you put 6-molar acetic acid (vinegar) and 6-molar hydrochloric acid together on magnesium, it fizzes a lot and releases smelly, acidic fumes. Don't want to breathe that stuff -- you wouldn't be able to breathe right for a long time. It would be like having a cough that lasted three months.

Here's a quiz:
Would you rather drink the can of sulfuric acid or the bottle of Drano? (BTW, Drano would eat out your esophagus probably just as much as the acid would -- it's a base.)

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Not the most practical way to produce H2 gas for all your household needs, but it works.

 

I always liked the alkali metal + water reactions.

 

-BC

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