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If you fell into 100C hot and extremely acidic water it would be a big problem – Barbara Cavalazzi, University of Bologna
by branja 9y ago
If you fell into 100C hot and extremely acidic water it would be a big problem – Barbara Cavalazzi, University of Bologna
- danvayn 9y agoFood for thought.
- Mtinie 9y agoSemi-serious question: In the unfortunate circumstance that you find yourself immersed in 100C water with a PH of 0, which condition would be the one that has the higher likelihood that it would kill you first?
- arkitaip 9y agoI would want to kill myself over not knowing if my underwear were clean should I survive and had to be medically treated.
- jaggederest 9y agoIt depends on which ion(s) in particular was in the solution. If it was something relatively pleasant, like the referenced sulfuric, carbonic, and chloric acids, the heat would almost certainly be more of a problem in the short term. In the long term you'd be missing significant portions of your anatomy due to the dehydration of your skin by the sulfuric acid, but that could certainly wait. On the other hand, if it were (for example) hydrofluoric acid, you'd have nerve transmission issues and your heart would stop well before you'd be cooked thoroughly. Here's an interesting video by Nile Red showing that it's not the acid, per se, that is especially dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeVZQoJ5FdE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeVZQoJ5FdE Now, when you heat things, all the reactions speed up. So it'd certainly be only a few seconds before things would get very drastic.
- mirimir 9y agoAnd with hot fuming nitric acid, you'd go up in flames.
- taneq 9y agoThe temperature. It takes far less long to boil alive than to dissolve.
- scythe 9y agoA man fell into the boiling lake on Dominica and was cooked to death in seconds so I'm going with that. But acid is made stronger by heat so it's not necessarily separable.