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Killing yourself with solvents (Alcohols and Hydrocarbons I have loved)
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jogri:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on May 18, 2020, 10:35:16 pm ---Some nice heavy duty fuel gloves will protect you for a while...   but they make precision work very difficult!

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Depending on the chemical they could only last 4 hours before they stop protecting you... And i wouldn't recommend leather gloves when handling chemicals for the simple reason that they tend to get soaked with the chemical-> You have permanent contact between the chemical and your sweaty fingers->ideal absorbtion into your body.

The german GESTIS database is a really nice source of information if you want to know what gloves to wear for which chemical, and it is even available in english: http://gestis-en.itrust.de/nxt/gateway.dll/gestis_en/000000.xml?f=templates$fn=default.htm$vid=gestiseng:sdbeng$3.0
Just go to "safe handling"->"personal protection". I would highly recommend using that side when working with new solvents as most gloves are good against a few different solvents, but provide little to no protection against others. (And some chemicals like fuming nitric acid shouldn't be handled with [nitrile] gloves at all)
KL27x:
Yep. There's practically no synthetic material that has good resistance to all solvents. It's reassuring that chemistry grad students are surprised when nitrile gloves are attacked by acetone and don't know why low boiling point and high vapor pressure liquids feel cold when they get spread on your skin and exposed to air.  :-DD

(Phase change from liquid to gas requires energy; this is sucking the heat right out of your skin.)

;;;
And don't worry, Christoff, everyone on the forum knows I am a bit off, at times, when it comes to social interaction. Some are sure I'm just full of myself.

One of the biggest recurring problems I find in our education and understanding of our own knowledge is... You take 100 intelligent and highly educated people who aren't accountants, and not a single one will believe he understands the tax codes of their country/state/city. These 100 highly intelligent and educated people who aren't biologists, and not a single one will think they know how mitochondria work and replicate. But you take 100 highly educated people of any field, and 99 of them believe they understand physics. They think Newton and Boyle etc. just wrote all that stuff down so you can calculate stuff. But that the main gist is obvious and intuitive, and they get it. But 98 of them are wrong. They carry incorrect connections/assumption in their mind, which they formed at a time when their view was limited, and which worked well enough to get them this far. At a certain age, those bad connections will never be fixed.

Not necessarily talking about you, and I'm sorry, Christoff. You can post mean response w/e, and I don't care. Will not respond. I deserve it for being a twat.
ChristofferB:
I should clarify, what I mean is some solvents gets 'colder than they should' by evaporation, the absorbtion or dissolution of nitrile (haven't tried with other gloves) is likely endothermic.

Another point about solvent safety is that a mildly toxic solvent that's readily absorbed through skin can 'trojan' more toxic chemicals into your body. This is especially a problem when cleaning unknown nastiness and gunk. It's especially bad with DMSO and DMF i believe.

KL27x:

--- Quote ---I should clarify, what I mean is some solvents gets 'colder than they should' by evaporation, the absorbtion or dissolution of nitrile (haven't tried with other gloves) is likely endothermic.
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I'm the idiot.
You are clearly more mature than I am (I make no claim otherwise), and you probably have some previous experience dealing with my kind. Thank you for that.
amyk:

--- Quote from: jogri on May 18, 2020, 10:51:59 pm ---(And some chemicals like fuming nitric acid shouldn't be handled with [nitrile] gloves at all)

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The choice between getting some painful burns, or some even more painful burns from the glove catching fire... :o
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