Summary for acid destroys sheet metal Discussion
The focus keyphrase, acid destroys sheet metal, comes from a science-fair question asking which acid affects sheet metal the most. In the excerpted answer, the responder only begins by recalling a 1970s Michael Crichton movie and does not yet provide a chemical comparison or a direct recommendation. Because the thread text shown is incomplete, there is no reliable conclusion about which acid is strongest against sheet metal, and no named expert advice beyond the opening remark is available. The safest takeaway is that the page appears to be a discussion starter rather than a finished technical answer in the provided excerpt, so any real comparison would need the full thread or additional source material before drawing conclusions.
Q. Which acid effects sheet metal the most.
Marie G. [surname deleted for privacy by Editor]
student – Brooklyn, New York
2003
2003
A. Hi Marie.
I remember a 1970’s Michael Crichton movie called “Westworld“, where Richard Benjamin goes on vacation to an animatronic/robotic re-creation of an “Old West” town. Then a robot cowboy, who looks like Yul Brenner but is actually made of sheet metal, goes bonkers. As the robot attacks, the hero finds himself cornered in a laboratory full of glass bottles of acids: acetic, sulfuric, hydrochloric, nitric and so on. His survival depends on throwing the right bottle of acid at the robot since he only has time to throw the one.
Is this more or less what you mean, which acid would be most devastating to a sheet metal animatron? He picks hydrochloric. Now the question is whether the movie has a happy ending :-)
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