[TheForge] Re: removing silver from a mirror

[James Binnion]

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>and it eats glass.  And, IIRC, a spill on the skin will soak in to the
>tissues, penetrate to the bones and begin to devour them.  In
>concentrated form at least, this is really bad stuff.

  If you are so unfortunate as to spill hydrofluoric acid on you in 
concentrated form it has a very good chance of killing you. A spill 
that covers 5% of your skin area is fatal with no way to treat it. 
The HF causes an severe imbalance in your blood electrolyte and you 
die from cardiac failure. Do not mess with it . If you need to etch 
glass use a sand blaster.

Jim

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