john haigh the acid bath murder used sulphuric acid to murder people. If sulphuric acid is strong enough to ..

Question

dissolve people, wouldn't the container of acid dissolve?

Answer 1

You can disovle the flesh and organs with sulphuric aicd, but you need to treat the bones with lye to dissolve them.

There are various containers that can easily hold acid. I know for a fact that it can be stored in glass, most acids can. I think sulphuric acid can be stored in a metal 55 gallon drum (large enough to hold a dissolving body) safely. There may be a plastic container that can hold it, but that is far less likely.

"Sulfuric acid is one of the few compounds whose chemical formula is well known by the general public because of many comic rhymes, such as this one:

no, Poor Sammy, I Knew Him Well, For Sammy Is No More,
For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.
A common variant is this:

Johnny was a chemist, but he isn't anymore,
For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4. "

Answer 2

Any container that is inert to sulfuric acid will not dissolve, glass dissolves to a very small extent with strong acids (with the exception of hydrofluoric acid which will easily dissolve glass and MUST be kept in a plastic container) and plastics don't at all. Fuming sulfuric acid will very rapidly turn organic matter to carbon removing water (dehydrating) in the process.

And to the idiot, coke contains phosphoric acid and it's the action of microbes on the sugar producing various organic acids and removing calcium from the teeth (check the spelling numpty).

Answer 3

Sulphuric Acid does not attack all substances. It can be stored perfectly safely in glass as it does not react with the glass.

Answer 4

Actually he strangled them I think and used acid to dispose of the bodies.
He was caught because fat in the body was not disolved and blocked the drains when he disposed of the liquid.

Answer 5

Glass is very stable; it hardly reacts with anything other than hydrofluoric acid (which is a much weaker acid than sulfuric acid)

Answer 6

It doesn`t dissolve glass fast enough to be a problem

Answer 7

if you refer the container as to glasses, then its because the glasses used in laboratories are borosillicate glass..
borosillicate glasses has high thermal resistivity and is chemically stable thus no matter how concentrated the sulfuric acid is, it cannot melt the glass...

Answer 8

well it disolves teath hence the reason coke is bad 4 ya teath does white spirit disolve the bottle? no it dnt but it disolves ya guts

Answer 9

Have we Got another Nutter