2007-01-04 21:33:35 · 3 answers · asked by amazing_sweet_angel 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
oxidation
2007-01-04 23:00:48 · answer #1 · answered by Ross P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nitric acid will eat through anything, wouldnt like to see your hand after spilling nitric on them.
Nitric is a powerful oxidising agent and attacks cells in the skin reacting with proteins and basically anything else that it comes into contact with leaving the proteins damaged if not obliterating them and staining the cells
I spilt some 7M nitric on a concrete floor when studying for my degree and it ate my shoes and and about 5 inches into the concrete floor before i fled the scene lol
2007-01-05 10:28:54 · answer #2 · answered by ajjcon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HNO3, nitric acid stains the skin yellow because it reacts with the protein in the skin.
2007-01-05 10:37:50 · answer #3 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋