Concentrated Sulphuric Acid Burns like hell
February 7th, 2007 by Kemar
Before I tell you how I found out that Sulphuric acid burns like hell, I’ll start with my very eventful day.
So I had my 4th Driving lesson today, Instructor came for me at 7AM, he did not want to come any later as it would have meant that I would have gotten school late and he did not want to be responsible for me getting to school late. Hell I sure did not want to get school late. So I am driving on the highway, doing like 60KMPH, then he keeps telling me that I need to watch my speed. Then we get on a part of the highway where the speed limit is like 60KMPH and I was doing like 65, and he, being a police officer tells me that If I keep this up I will be getting reported by the cops a lot, or something to that effect. So I eventually get school at 8AM, and I am screw as I don’t normally get to school that early.
So school starts, and I am liming around the place, check my cell phone, which mind you aren’t allowed in schools, and realise that my mom sent me a text telling me to call her, so I went down to the office and told them some messed up story about why I want to use the phone, call my mom and found out what she wants. So I stop there and talk to some girls and this teachers comes in and starts going all ballistic on me, and it telling me that seeing as this is the first building people will see when then come to the school, and that liming gives the impression that we do nothing. I was waiting there because I needed to call back my mom as I did not get her the first time I tried. So he is shouting and basically making a mountain out of a mould hill. So to save myself further embarrassment, I went from there and went somewhere else and continued to do nothing. But I was kinda angry as some other students who skipped a class, were doing late slip duty which I was supposed to do as it is part of my contract, so they basically took over and I left.
So the bell rings to end that lesson, and I decide to go into a class room and not to my usual English Literature class as the teacher was not at school and I would not have been able to accomplish anything in that class. So I am in this room and these guys come in selling stuff which is against the school rules as usual, and the guard man comes in there, at that point there is no evidence of anything wrong happening, the stupid guard mans goes out finds a teacher and tells him that someone has a cell phone in there. At that point I am like Ohhh shit, because I have mine in my pocket. He then proceeds to tell us to empty our pockets, so I take out everything except my cell phone, put them on the desk then he says that he does not believe any of the four of us, including me would have a cell phone. So I sit down and continue my work, the guy who was selling got jacked up for it.
Skip lunch time, lets go on now to my Chemistry class. Get class and we have to do some Qualitative Analyses labs, so I proceed to do them, do all of them, get to the very last test, seeing as we were using very concentrated Sulphuric Acid the teacher kept it right by her, so I took some and as soon I took it up, she moved from beside me. Go back to my station, complete the test did something with the test tube, and the next thing I noticed is that I can feel this burning on my leg, at that point I see a liquid on me, have no Idea what it is, I take up a bottle of distilled water and soaked my pants, it stopped for a while, continue the test. The next thing I know it starts back burning me, the teacher then tells me to put some Ammonium Hydroxide on it to neutralise it, I do that it stops. Then I noticed Four holes in my pants, I am like what the fuck. Ohh not to mention the small hole on my frigging leg. That’s the end of that pants.
So that’s how my day went.
