Do you think battery acid is dangerous?

[Sailingsaves]

specific gravity of acid from a charged battery is approx 1.33 (that is 43% concentrate). Dangerous if spraying it around or something.

From a a dead cell, sg=1.05 (that is 7.4% concentrate)

I have dealt with HF acid before (very dangerous) and lots of other dangerous things in my time as a scientist.

I cannot see anything I did in this video that was dangerous. I did not bother with nitrile gloves because having had it on my hands and washed it off, no ill effects were observed.

This is a scrap battery someone gave me and I am tinkering with it.

Do you see anything I am doing that is dangerous?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuric_acid#Grades_of_sulfuric_acid

 

[matthewriches]

I deal with a lot of fire damaged, flood damaged and crashed boats so am always hauling out damaged batteries. Big heavy Homer Simpson gloves every time as the bloody stuff can sting like a barstool!

 

[Fr J Hackett]

specific gravity of acid from a charged battery is approx 1.33 (that is 43% concentrate). Dangerous if spraying it around or something.

From a a dead cell, sg=1.05 (that is 7.4% concentrate)


I have dealt with HF acid before (very dangerous) and lots of other dangerous things in my time as a scientist.

I cannot see anything I did in this video that was dangerous. I did not bother with nitrile gloves because having had it on my hands and washed it off, no ill effects were observed.

This is a scrap battery someone gave me and I am tinkering with it.

Do you see anything I am doing that is dangerous?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuric_acid#Grades_of_sulfuric_acid

No why do you ask.

 

[solent clown]

Are you mucking about with it, testing SG, when it appears to be connected to some PV ? Looks that way in the pic. As for battery acid, it's fine. If we run out of tonic water it suffices at a pinch. :encouragement:

 

[savageseadog]

Never gei battery acid on anything Nylon, particularly rope of course,

 

[VicS]

specific gravity of acid from a charged battery is approx 1.33 (that is 43% concentrate). Dangerous if spraying it around or something.

From a a dead cell, sg=1.05 (that is 7.4% concentrate)

I have dealt with HF acid before (very dangerous) and lots of other dangerous things in my time as a scientist.

I cannot see anything I did in this video that was dangerous. I did not bother with nitrile gloves because having had it on my hands and washed it off, no ill effects were observed.

This is a scrap battery someone gave me and I am tinkering with it.

Do you see anything I am doing that is dangerous?

Using a jar labelled picked onions for sulfuric acid

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Using a jar labelled picked onions for sulfuric acid

Yes it should be acetic acid

 

[Sailingsaves]

Using a jar labelled picked onions for sulfuric acid

Ah, but there are no onions in it, so all good

 

[penberth3]

Yes it should be acetic acid

If we're going to spell sulphur with an f, that should be ethanoic acid!

 

[VicS]

If we're going to spell sulphur with an f, that should be ethanoic acid!

The preferred spelling for sulfur and its compounds is with an "f" .

Ethanoic acid is the IUPAC name but the "common" names of many common compounds are also accepted. Acetic acid is one of those

 

[awol]

The preferred spelling for sulfur and its compounds is with an "f" .

Another Septic aberration of the mother tongue! They seem to like doing it - other examples are aluminium, silicone, and they don't seem to like "u" either as a sound or in colour, flavour, etc.. I suppose we could pander to them on this forum as they own it.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

If we're going to spell sulphur with an f, that should be ethanoic acid!

I am a very old chemist but even so I wouldn't spell sulphur with an f. Never could get the hang of that new fangled nomenclature.

 

[lpdsn]

I am a very old chemist but even so I wouldn't spell sulphur with an f. Never could get the hang of that new fangled nomenclature.

I thought old chemists called it Brimstone.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I thought old chemists called it Brimstone.

Nah that's them alchemists just before my time, a discredited lot and brimstone was sulphur anyway not the acid better known as spirits of vitriol.

 

[Hydrozoan]

Another Septic aberration of the mother tongue! They seem to like doing it - other examples are aluminium, silicone, and they don't seem to like "u" either as a sound or in colour, flavour, etc.. I suppose we could pander to them on this forum as they own it.

Depends on what you mean by 'mother tongue' I think. The Old English was 'swefl' https://www.etymonline.com/word/sulfur

 

[No Regrets]

Are you mucking about with it, testing SG, when it appears to be connected to some PV ? Looks that way in the pic. As for battery acid, it's fine. If we run out of tonic water it suffices at a pinch. :encouragement:

Quote of the week! :encouragement: