What is the most poisonous thing you've touched/eaten?

[zeruty]

That one guy from that one show was on ER and got doused with hydroflouric acid...

Know who I'm talkin about?

hah

 

[walrus]

Have a lot of rattlesnakes around my house. Killed one a few months ago, a few days latter there was another on the deck where I eat my breakfast. Tried to catch him, but he got away.

 

[SampSon]

Mercury.
Heroin.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: GooeyGUI

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
I handled hydroflouric acid. That stuff is death incarnate.

nice! for those that don't know, this stuff is burn-a-hole-to-china nasty.

It will eat right through glass (and bone/tissue), so they keep it in polyethylene bottles when using it as a reagent in a chem lab. Double gloves to be sure.

Yep. No glass in the HF cleavage device in my lab. Heck, only 3 of the 10 people in my lab are authorized to use it. And not even just double gloves - rubber apron, face shield, and special rubber gloves along with the standard lab coat.

 

[skyking]

Parathion
Chemicals used to make TNT.

Other nasty stuff, see Boomer's link on hazmat cleanup.

 

[theMan]

i worked in a lab one summer where i handled phenol all the time. now that's scary ass shit. i also worked with hydrofluoric acid on a regular basis, which has an interesting property. if you spill it on your skin, it doesn't react with your skin, muscle or fat tissue right away, but instead absorbs through the flesh until it reaches the bone, which it reacts to much quicker. so it basically dissolves your bones... crazy. you could spill it on yourself and not even notice until you start to die. i've also worked with all the other common acids and bases like hydrochloric, sulfuric, nitric acids and bases like concentrated sodium hydroxide. one time i came close to liquid oxygen, but never actually had to handle it.

 

[Toastedlightly]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: GooeyGUI

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
I handled hydroflouric acid. That stuff is death incarnate.

nice! for those that don't know, this stuff is burn-a-hole-to-china nasty.

It will eat right through glass (and bone/tissue), so they keep it in polyethylene bottles when using it as a reagent in a chem lab. Double gloves to be sure.

Yep. No glass in the HF cleavage device in my lab. Heck, only 3 of the 10 people in my lab are authorized to use it. And not even just double gloves - rubber apron, face shield, and special rubber gloves along with the standard lab coat.

I was doing lab safety inspections and a group that wasn't authorized to use it was (IIRC, the carbon filters in fume-hoods don't catch the stuff and more powerful filters or more fine filters are required). I touched the bottle while trying to sort through their haz. waste (it was a very, very messy lab). I took the bottle out of the fume hood and placed it in a 5 gallon pail, filled it w/ packing material and sealed it. I'm sure the lab got a stiff talking to. I sure as hell was a little scared, as I was moving stuff around w/ only gloves.

 

[buck]

Bitten by a cottonmouth, grandfather was an eagle scout and started sucking out poison till i got to the hospital, ended up being ok.