• Question: What is the deadliest/most dangerous thing you have do in a lab?

    Asked by klmac to Neil on 6 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Neil Keddie

      Neil Keddie answered on 6 Mar 2018:

      I’ve worked with Cyanide quite a few times, and I’m trained as a first aider to treat someone who has cyanide poisoning.

      In my lab, we use a lot of a chemical called Hydrofluoric Acid, which is such a strong acid that it will eat through glass! We have to be really careful when you use this, as if you spill it on your skin it starts to dissolve your bones as it poisons you! We have special gloves that we use when handling this, and an antidote cream that you have to keep on you at all times too.

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