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DavidJR
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I thought you were going to say you blew yourself up with acetone peroxide...
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DavidJR
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Uhh... turns out a solution of para-benzoquinone in dichloromethane can penetrate nitrile gloves...
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Considering that nitrile gloves offer little to no protection to DCM ("splash protection" at best), I can't say I'm surprised.
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DavidJR
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Yes, I realise this now. 
I wasn't going about dipping my hands in it, it was just a splash & I did take the gloves off shortly after. So to be honest I wouldn't even say
they offer splash protection for DCM.
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Damn, looks like my hands after a KMnO4 spillage, apparently p-benzoquinone can cause rashes and localised tissue necrosis - definitely keep an eye on
it. If it’s just stained though then it isn’t a huge deal but by the sounds of it, it’s not an overly pleasant compound to be working with..
In chemistry, sometimes the solution is the problem.
It’s been a while, but I’m not dead! Updated 7/1/2020. Shout out to Aga, we got along well.
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DavidJR
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It's not painful at all so I'm hoping that it's just temporary staining. And yeah, it's not a particularly pleasant compound, the vapours are very
irritating to the eyes and throat, and even as a room temperature solid it sublimes readily so there's more vapour than you realise.
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I accidentally poured glacial acetic acid on my hand. It made huge painful red stain on it. Same as burn. I remembered some advices that I have to
flush it with lots of water. I flushed it 20 minutes with running water. Believe it or not in 2 hours all color and pain dissapeared like nothing ever
happened. This happened many years ago.
I had a picture but removed it
[Edited on 13-4-2018 by RawWork]
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LearnedAmateur
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Similar thing happened back when I was in school, accidentally got some acetic anhydride (synthesis of aspirin) on my finger and I had a stinging
white blister about a centimetre across immediately come up.
Oh yeah, and once I almost drank white spirit back when I was into making model aircraft, got a mouthful thinking it was a bottle of water (didn’t
check the bottle). That’s another reason to have a room dedicated to chemistry, and I’m really lucky it wasn’t anything else! Surprisingly it
didn’t really taste of much, it was mostly the smell that gave it away.
In chemistry, sometimes the solution is the problem.
It’s been a while, but I’m not dead! Updated 7/1/2020. Shout out to Aga, we got along well.
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I was in high school (in another era, when you were actually allowed to do real chemistry in school) and was doing some reaction in a test tube with
benzene. Don't remember what it was, a nucleophilic substitution of some sort. I was actually my chemistry's teacher star pupil and was allowed to
work unsupervised. I was alone in the lab at the time. The reaction wouldn't start by itself so I started carefully heating the test tube over a
burner. Nothing happened. I started heating it more strongly. The benzene started vaporizing and condensing in the upper parts of the tube as a
condensation ring, then dripping back to the bottom (essentially refluxing in the tube). The reaction still wouldn't start. I heated it some more.
The condensation ring started getting higher, then higher, then reached the opening of the tube...
Suddenly I found myself holding a test tube (in a tube holder not in my hand, I'm not that crazy) with a column of flame about 1 meter high shooting
from it. And black soot started floating everywhere in the pristine lab. I had the good presence of spirit to take a big breath, then blow as hard as
I could parallel to the mouth of the tube. That extinguished the flame. I spent the next 30 minutes cleaning everywhere in the lab, and it was a big
room (about 10*20 meters).
I learned a valuable lesson that day, that I remember to this day. Fortunately without harm.
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