ACID IN PLASTIC
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, September 1. “Someone is going to get seriously hurt if this goes on,” said Mr C. J. Garvie, a manufacturing jeweller, as he pointed to a plastic bottle eaten away by nitric acid. He said manufacturers had begun packing the dangerous acid in plastic. “This bottle split right round and has a hole in it the size of your thumb,” he said. “Nitric acid is very dangerous stuff, and plastic just won’t stand up to it. I’d feel safer with glass containers." A plasties expert at the chemistry division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Mr J. Kennett, said he was not happy about concentrated nitric acid being packed in plastic.
An Auckland doctor said that if nitric acid spilled or leaked from one of these containers it would cause severe burns to the flesh of anyone handling it. The manager of an Auckanld firm supplying nitric acid in plastic containers said he felt these had made the handling of the acid much safer. “We have nothing like the breakages we had when glass carboys and stone jars were used,” he said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31773, 2 September 1968, Page 22
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191ACID IN PLASTIC Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31773, 2 September 1968, Page 22
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