Recent content by Stadtjunky

Agreed, but most young student chemists aren't taught about LD50 values, at least I wasn't. You have to learn for yourself.

To be honest, I have to agree with previous comments. When you start out in chemistry it's not clear what's dangerous and what's not. And it doesn't help that you're not medically trained, so when you see "may cause cancer" or "may cause death" or whatever, it's difficult to interpret these...

Well yeah probably within 6 seconds or so.

Those .11 mm nitrile gloves, they should have a breakthrough time greater than 10 seconds for DCM, right?

Ouch. So I take it you use gloves and googles today? Did you have fumehoods back then? :S Speaking on gloves, do you use nitrile gloves?

Of course I always do this. But it was spilled on my hand through no fault of my own.

I guess so. Have you had any chemical exposures in the past that worried you?

Thanks Borek, I really appreciate your response. As a chemist surely it's not un-normal to have a few sleepless nights worrying about the toxicity of various chemicals, espicially if you're young and inexperienced?

But are you aware of the toxicity of this deadly compound? :(

It obviously got through my skin if my skin was red and irritated :( But you think the risk is small?

I would estimate about 10-15 mls of this mixture fell onto my gloves (which stayed on my hands for like 5-6 seconds). The mixture had about 10% pure MeI, the rest was DCM.

Have you ever been exposed to this, or know anyone that has and hasn't got cancer? I mean, like, dermal exposure? Should the nitrile gloves stop DCM getting through for like 10 seconds perhaps?

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to read this! I'm student chemist (only 21), and last week I got exposed to a lot of methyl iodide when I spilt some dissolved in DCM onto my hand, although I was wearing nitrile gloves I think the chemical passed straight through, I had some skin irritation...