<p>So, in an AP Chem lab, me and half our class got silver nitrate on our hands.</p>
<p>For those that don't know, the stuff makes your skin turn browner...and it refuses to come off...</p>
<p>I got it on on thursday, it's almost saturday.</p>
<p>Anyone know of household methods to get it off?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure you have to wait for a while and it'll come out on its own (skin regeneration, etc).</p>
<p>As far as I know, there are none... As your skin exfoliates, the silver nitrate stains should gradually disappear, though.</p>
<p>I am fairly certain a large dose of 12 molar hydrochloric acid will do the trick.</p>
<p>haha thats funny, i just did a lab w/ silver nitrate like 2 days ago. my teacher warned us that it would stain though (and i smeared some on my paper to see for myself, wow im a GENIUS)</p>
<p>Hey, at least you didn't get your hands titrated with 1M NaOH.</p>
<p>you shoulda seen my AP chem teacher's hands by the end of the class. her hands were a rainbow of colors; she sacrificed herself for us basically.</p>
<p>knowing chem, it could be worse.</p>
<p>We use silver nitrate a lot- no one has ever gotten it on their hands. Are you guys really clumsy? =D</p>
<p>Once, we were doing an identification lab (we had 4 salts, and had to identify them each as one of 12 substances). I figured out that my last salt was either harmless NaCl.... or a toxic barium salt (!!!). I then accidentally spilled that solution on my hands. Being a hypochondriac, I convinced myself that I could feel my hands tingling and burning... however, in the end I guessed that I had the NaCl. Luckily for me, I was correct. But I find it funny that I felt my hands "burning" after touching salt water =)</p>