Good Morning All, I have developed these spots/marks/stains on my hands over this past week with the spots starting out as brown then going fully fledged black. I did make up some 0.05M Silver Nitrate from 0.5M about 3 weeks ago so thought that might be why but they only appeared this week and I was double gloved up when making it and haven't touched the bottles since, all surfaces had been wiped down while wearing gloves. The ones on my finger tips appeared on Wednesday when I was gloved up cleaning through a cupboard with no chemicals in so I have no clue at all what could have caused this. Any ideas??
Mystery Spots/Marks/Stains?? On Hands
- Thread starter trishk
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Purple Cat
It's real Science not Rocket Science
Some silver nitrate may have got through
Definately silver nitrate. it will fade and disappear in time.
Till then will have dalmation like hands
Thank you!!Yes, silver nitrate will find your fingers even if you think you have taken all reasonable precautions! It does fade and disappear after about a week.
Again @Emil Tac I appreciate this is a bit of fun, but when someone searches "silver nitrate preproom" and gets some of this as a search result, it appears as though we are offering bad advice here, which if it happens a lot, can cause us big issues in terms of web filtering in schools.
Recently we had an issue in several schools who could not access the site because someone had added a single phrase which provoked a safeguarding response from the county filters. This then meant 100 or so technicians lost access for a week and had we not realised, it would have affected more schools in time.
I don't want to come across as a party pooper, but forums are really delicate, especially ones that cater for schools and it just takes a handful of posts to kill them completely.
Yeaah could be there were some empty glass bottles in there maybe some of those had some traces!