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Smell of the testing kit
- Thread starter twilogurl
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Not quite sure sure of the purpose of knowing what the smell is like.
I wouldn't be one to sit there sniffing it like vicks. The marquis reagent contains formaldahyde(sp?) which can escape out of solution.
To quote The Simpsons:
Ralph: It tastes like Grandma!
Police Chief: Here, gimme some of that. Good lord! It does taste like Grandma!
I wouldn't be one to sit there sniffing it like vicks. The marquis reagent contains formaldahyde(sp?) which can escape out of solution.
To quote The Simpsons:
Ralph: It tastes like Grandma!
Police Chief: Here, gimme some of that. Good lord! It does taste like Grandma!
aj
Bluelighter
Do not attempot to smell it. Same goes for the new Supreme as well. There is no use in smelling it and those liquids are toxic. Avoid all contact with hands, smelling (nose), eyes, skin, clothes, etc.
aj
aj
evo_merseyside
Bluelighter
Yeah, definatly dont let it come into contact with any material... I got it on a shirt and it burnt a hole in it
yeah, do not smell this.
technically this would be a fumehood chemical anyway, so you'd have to be quite dumb to go around huffing it.
personally id say its not the formaldehyde you should be worrying about (although, yeah, there will be formaldehyde vapor above the solution). it's the sulfuric acid. marquis reagent contains a damned lot of concentrated sulfuric acid, and... well, i happen to have somewhat accidentally inhaled some of its vapor.
acid and base vapors are unlike anything you've experienced in the normal world. the smell is overpowering and it burns your nose. its sulfurous, very burning, otherwise hard to describe.
and this was just from being too close to an uncovered beaker of it.
there are things that smell worse than sulfuric acid, or have more harmful vapors, but it's still up there.
technically this would be a fumehood chemical anyway, so you'd have to be quite dumb to go around huffing it.
personally id say its not the formaldehyde you should be worrying about (although, yeah, there will be formaldehyde vapor above the solution). it's the sulfuric acid. marquis reagent contains a damned lot of concentrated sulfuric acid, and... well, i happen to have somewhat accidentally inhaled some of its vapor.
acid and base vapors are unlike anything you've experienced in the normal world. the smell is overpowering and it burns your nose. its sulfurous, very burning, otherwise hard to describe.
and this was just from being too close to an uncovered beaker of it.
there are things that smell worse than sulfuric acid, or have more harmful vapors, but it's still up there.