Summary for acid-soaked clothes Discussion
acid-soaked clothes are unsafe to wear if they have not been washed first, and the thread also shows how easily an abstract question can be misunderstood. Travis Mccrary asked what would happen if clothes soaked in muriatic acid were worn. Freeman Newton replied that wearing them wet or dry without washing could be dangerous, even joking that the person might find themselves "committed," but said washed clothes that were still intact should be fine. A later response from Sheldon suggested the question may actually have been about an employer asking someone to work with muriatic acid without proper safety gear, which would explain the concern. The exchange ends with a reminder from the forum to describe the real situation clearly, since vague questions lead to long lists of ifs, and responders may not want to guess at the details.
⇦ Tip: Readers like to learn from others’ situations;
some readers skip abstract questions.
Q. What if clothes were soaked in muriatic acid and I was to wear them.
Travis Mccrary
– Princeton, Indiana
2005
A. If you mean to wear acid-soaked clothes without washing them, whether wet or dry, I think you might find yourself committed.
But if you wash them and they’re not falling apart, I see no problem.
Ted Mooney, P.E.
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A. Please, PLEASE let Ted know how you felt after wearing your wet HCl clothes. He would be delighted to know. So would all the readers.
You could also wring them out first of all and then drink the liquid …. but whether you’d be able to correspond after that is highly unlikely, a good case of R.I.P.
Have a look-see in the archives at thread no. 10986.
Freeman Newton [deceased]
R.I.P. old friend (It is our sad duty to
advise that Freeman passed away 4/21/12)
A. I could be wrong but I am thinking that this guy is being asked by an employer to do something that he thinks might be unsafe, like working with muriatic acid without proper safety gear. Hopefully he got the message.
Sheldon Taylor
supply chain electronics
Wake Forest, North Carolina
Oh, okay, that makes sense, Sheldon!
But who knows? That’s one reason we endlessly beg people pretty-please to describe their actual situation rather than posting an easily misunderstood abstract question. Another reason we ask it is that some of our regular responders tell us they’re unwilling to waste their time answering questions which require them to write long lists of ifs-ands-&-buts … but we still get loads of abstract questions :-)
Luck & Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
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