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Asked by bobby to Ceri, Marikka, Matt, Rob, Sally on 17 Nov 2014.
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Ceri Dare answered on 17 Nov 2014:
I don’t know,, but hydrofluoric acid is scary – it can eat through glass, and if you spill it on a bit of you then you have to have that bit amputated!
I don’t work in a lab, I use computers and health records and talking to people – much safer.
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Matt Bilton answered on 17 Nov 2014:
Apparently fluoroantimonic acid: http://tinyurl.com/super-acid
It’s 10 quadrillion times stronger than pure sulphuric acid! Sounds pretty nasty
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Robert Hampson answered on 17 Nov 2014:
There are normal acids like hydrochloric acid and nitric acid, these often occur naturally but they are still are pretty dangerous and corrosive. Concentrated HCl will happily eat through paper or wood for example.
There are also stronger acids called super acids (these are acids that are stronger than sulfuric acid) which man has designed and synthesised. For example, I work with something called Triflic Acid which is useful because it is fairly clean when used in chemical reactions (it acts simply as an acid where many other strong acids do other stuff). However, it is 100000 times stronger than hydrochlric acid so its pretty dangerous to work with.
We know of an acid called Flouroantimonic Acid. It is 10000000000000000 times stronger than sulfuric acid. It could melt through your bones as if they were tissue paper. It is so acidic that on contact with water, it explodes. It has to be kept is special PTFE containers as it would easily melt through glass. It will happily protonate simple carbon chains (petrol or oil or coal) which are normally thought to be basically chemically inert. Normally you can only get them to react at 900C or something. This acid is potent!
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