<p>hey guys. its relaly not about admission or all that.
bbut today in chem class, i got a drop of liquid bromine (orangE) on my hand. first it turned orange (after iwashed it still the same) and seemed to kind of disappear. later.
i didnt tell my teacher since he just said dont breath in. and wear eyegoggles. !!
he didnt say anything about. getting it on ur skin. andi m pretty sure it would be ifne...but
my fingerpirnts(u know those wrinkly lines) are still orangish. and i was wondering if it would ever go away. (u know how AgNO3 turns ur skin black)
i washed it for like 15 seconds or less. withou t soap. and
like right now (after like 10hours) i washed it with soap.</p>
<p>so my question iss.. my finger wont be orange forever rihgt.</p>
<p>im sure bromine's fine-i had a bud who tried to burn a hole in his shirt w/ 6mol H2SO4. It was funny...till his it got 2 his shoulder....then it was funnier</p>
<p>Bromine in its liquid state can be very dangerous, assuming you were working with Br2. In concentrated form, it can cause severe irritation or blisters...skin contact is definitely to be avoided. It sounds like you had only a mild reaction, and it's definitely not likely to be orange forever; skin cells get shed pretty quickly. </p>
<p>Be more careful in the future and consider wearing gloves when working with strong chemicals. Safety is extremely important in the lab. You should have been working in a fumehood, which I hope you were.</p>
<p>boyfleur- I saw someone do the same thing, except he was stupid enough to use HF...the results were something I'd rather not remember. You don't mess with strong chemicals.</p>
<p>dude-sry, not funny given yr freaking out right now....i get that. I'm sure yr cool if u feel fine now. (My friend ended up at the college medic w/ 1st degree burns. It's a great story now, but i didn't mean you shouldn't watch where u put your elbows in lab.)</p>
<p>no not in the fumehood. he just sai d don tbreath in..yeh id idn t get any blisters or anything...but something that appears tobe..almost a blister but not...if u dig what im sayin.</p>
<p>of course it will go away =). i remember my fingers being swollen, purple, red, orange, green, and burnt all at once [yet i haven't sprouted any wings, or extra limbs ;)]. if your chem class is anything like i imagine, your teacher definitely won't let his students mess with serious chemicals -- stuff that causes real damage. the worst thing that can happen to you is concentrated NaOH. not even kidding. hehe, enjoy class! chem had always been one of my favs n_n</p>
<p>if this is high school, that bromine you were working with shouldn't be that strong. there are certain regulations that limits the concentration of chemicals used in high school labs. and many high schools don't have working fume hoods due to financial reasons. my high school didn't have one so i enhaled lots of chemicals.</p>
<p>dont worry over it. I used to draw pictures on my hand in bromine and they stayed a couple of days. Looked quite cool, until i realised it probably wasn't <em>that</em> safe. You will be fine ;)</p>
<p>you have to wash it off as fast as you can. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromine%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromine</a>
the color may appear to fade, but it really gets absorbed through your skin and end up in your blood stream. When the brno3 hits your brain, you don't wanna know what happens. For your own safety- go wash your hands with hydrofluoric acid.</p>
<p>Looks like it just will irritate your skin. Inhaling or ingesting would be much worse. If you'd like some yellow spots to match, phenol red works well (although in large quantities, it can be a laxative - I've heard at least - my experience has only been with the yellowing effect).</p>
<p>I'd also suggest not sticking your finger into an ice bath for 10 mins - my only experience thus far with frostbite :D</p>
<p>This one time, my dentist let a droplet of some chemical fall on my lip. It felt like just water. Then, on the car ride home it STUNG like crazy. The spot turned brown and I couldn't feel that part of my lip at all. My stingy parents wouldn't take me back to the dentist because they were afraid it would cost unecessary money.
Weeks later, the brown spot fell off, but I think I'm scarred for life.</p>