I was cleaning out a chemical storage closet at work. A hydrogen chloride container leaked out onto some iodine containers. I picked one up (bare handed) and sat it down in the grass. About thirty seconds later, I noticed the steam boiling up from around the bottom of the container. This is about 45 seconds worth of contact.
I know. I’ve worked with it myself, and I once accidentally inhaled a small volume of it.
A-Level chemistry, innit.
Everyone’s done it at some point. That’s how you know not to do it again haha.
Yeah, but it would have been nice for my teacher to say that the reaction produces HCl gas BEFORE telling everyone to perform it.