Recent content by Stibnut

Yeah, it's the cut that caused the instant pain with phosphoric. I've gotten the 85% stuff on my skin several times without incident, and I've also gotten 98% sulfuric on my skin before too - that stuff can start causing a burn within about 20-30 seconds at room temperature, but just a few...

I'd advise going for 10% too - it is neither very volatile nor very dangerous* at that concentration, but 30%+ is far worse. HCl has this peculiar property where it doesn't give off a whole lot of HCl vapor below its azeotrope (20.2%), but its volatility shoots way up when concentrated past it...

Hi everyone! I've been brewing now for a little under three years. I picked up the hobby around the middle of 2020, when many people were locked down. That didn't really affect my job much, though. Actually, I take that back. It was the best thing that ever happened to my employer, because I...