Last night I somehow dreamed I had a hydrofluoric acid burn. Reading this thread I remembered there was this rust stain remover product on US Amazon that is 3% HF. https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B000LNQNM0/
It's got great reviews (and I'm inclined to believe that this product will do the job). There's one 1-star review that stands out though: "Simply put. It doesn’t work and it was shipped leaking." Yikes!
Who knows what was left of that 3% HF after it was shipped leaking... Maybe it was just mildly spicy water when delivered, and the poor amazon warehouse workers got to have most of the fun.
I’m sure they have all the equipment on hand to provide proper first aid for the vast multitude of chemicals they stock. They would never sell anything unsafe, right?
I thought surely you must be joking when I clicked on the link. Then I thought, ok, I'm a high school flunky, and I must be confusing this with the "don't go within a million miles of" substance that Walter White used to dissolve corpses and the one that I've read about repeatedly over the years that is immediately poisonous to human life even if you spill it only on a fingertip. But nope the 1-star reviews make it clear that I'm not confused. Then I start wondering how this can even be shipped with regular parcel services...
I finished up by thinking "he linked to the reviews, because the product is no longer for sale". So I click through the link, nope. $11/bottle. And not soem Engrishy label, looks like I could find it on the shelf at Home Depot or Walmart. Seriously, wtf.
It's got great reviews (and I'm inclined to believe that this product will do the job). There's one 1-star review that stands out though: "Simply put. It doesn’t work and it was shipped leaking." Yikes!