Paging the chemists

Garage clearout time.
Anybody want a couple of litres of Sulphuric Acid AR?
That's 98%, strong stuff, a bit dangerous to leave lying around.
Alternatively, what's a safe method of disposal?
I was thinking of diluting it to 10% and neutralising it with
lime or soda then putting it down the drain.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eiron

Whereabouts is it?

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It's so cheap to buy that anybody who wanted it would have some.

Good plan.

 

You don't happen to have any 98% Nitric acid as well do you?

 

No really, where is it?

 

Coventry, not far from the M6.
Could deliver next time I'm working down south.
Email me if you want it.

To Grimly - yes it is cheap, but they don't like selling it to the public.

 

What, and some...nio, niowadays I'd get arrested for saying that,
probably.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eiron

Thinking about it, I'd only leave it lying around until I split it all
down my leg, so I'll pass.

Thanks.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

How exactly do you plan to dilute this? Hint: there's a right way and a
wrong way

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, simonk

"Always do what you oughta, add the acid to the water".

Along with that old classic:

"Here lies the corpse of Lester Moore,
Poor Lester is no more,
For what he thought was H2O,
Was H2SO4".

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Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

I say old bean, your stinks teach must have loved you.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip

Not after the Incident Of The Bunsen Burner, he didn't.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

"Here lies Gillian, still and placid;
Who added water to the acid.
Clever Jane did as she oughter;
Added acid to the water."
-- is close to what we were taught.

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Champ wrote :

Cheerful lot, weren't they?

 

<shrug>

I've had no problems buying it, but it's from a small local chem co who
know me.