On 8/17/2012 9:25 AM, Invisible wrote:

> After a few minutes it eventually stopped fizzing. There's still some
> kind of brown vapour issuing from it though. And the black paint is
> slowly falling off, revealing the dully silver metal beneath.

Nitrogen Dioxide. Nasty stuff. Thank goodness for a fume hood :) 
Anything else dissolve?

> It will be interesting to see if there's anything left by Monday. My
> college thinks it will have been reduced to sludge by then. I suspect
> it'll still be in once piece, just slightly corroded around the outside.


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~Mike

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