re: #82 AlexRogan

Here’s another page at that blog worth the read, about chlorine trifluoride: “Sand Won’t Save You This Time”

Nasty stuff…

HF is what they use to etch glass, which is normally inert to things like acids.

My husband referred to it as the “shit that if you drop it eats a hole to the center of the earth” which isn’t quite accurate but does reflect the fact that the spill procedures for this are fucking scary, as opposed to 99.9% of the other chemicals I dealt with in lab.