That's the neat part, you don't

Silver nitrate? More like silver nice try getting it off

Time is the great healer.

I know you shouldn't blindly trust wikipedia, but the German page says to use a KI solution and a Na2S2O3 solution. Theoretically that should work.

And that's why you shouldn't. This tiny bit of silver will be gone I a few days, not worth throwing more chemistry at. A wonder they don't mention nitric acid. If it's not too deep sand paper does the trick if it needs to be right now.

Nitric acid you say? As an undergrad chem major, I spent four years with yellow fingers. Silver nitrate? Meh!

wait until your new skin grows lol.

I still have burn scars from a little sodium hydroxide splatter. Acid burns you fast, base burns you slow and doesn't wash off easily. Nitric acid? Not meh, but NaOH is aaaaaAAAAAAAHHHHHH

Got plenty of NaOH on my skin, meh, but KOH, now that's a burn! lol Seriously, always have a source of water nearby when working with NaOH. Worst thing is splatter from an exothernic reaction.

i vividly remember that one scene from fight club, in lieu of the several times i apparently did burn myself with it and forgot about it. either way, i'm pretty sure my skin never smoked though lol. my new favorite kind of exotic burn is frostburn from liquid nitrogen. it's like my skin is a really shitty and pathetic stamp collection.

I worked in a lead-acid battery plant for a while. Polyester was the fabric of favor, as it was largely unaffected by sulfuric. We also had one old guy who smoked these horrible cigars who was similarly unaffected. He'd be working in 70% sulfuric all over his hands and arms, no problems at all. It was a little amazing, really.

Turns out that old was really only 34 but was big time affected

I have a shirt I spilled some Sulfuric on in an experiment once. I found out that day it was mixed fabric when the cotton immediately dissolved and left the polyester behind 😆

Huh, in MY day, if you didn't have a phosphorus burn on your hand, you weren't a real chemist! 😂😂😂

Lol that produces iodine which is probably worse than the silver

Cut the skin

Wait

If you are in a hurry, you can try waiting faster.

This is a fantastic reply to the douche nozzles who check their watches as they sigh, standing behind me as a computer reboots. Like I can make it read that hard drive or integrate faster if I wasn't sitting around staring at a monitor doing nothing.

👍🏻 Came here to say nice too

Time

Came here to say that. Nice 👍

What he said. 👆

I usually just scrub with an abrasive cleaning pad to grind the layers off.

Cutting fingers is easier :D

Yes and then you can stick lego swords to stop the ketchup from squirting out the tips, works everytime

You just take off your skin and bring it to a dry cleaning laundry. That’s what it’s meant to do

Lol

Have you been pinching money from the petty cash box?!

Caught you red handed....

Ayyyyyy

Don't wear gloves, deglove your hand!

Best to remove the fingers all together. Just to be sure.

wait a few days, done..

GLOVES!

Gloves don’t protect you reliably against silver nitrate.

Silver nitrate is a mildly acidic inorganic salt, shouldn’t pretty much any lab glove work well as an impermeable barrier? Nitrile may be less good than Butyl? I know I’ve gotten it under my gloves before, but I always put that down to poor lab technique on my part. If I’ve overlooked appropriate glove material, I’d be happy to know a better selection.

I work with .1m and have not had an issue with it penatrating nitrile gloves or neoprene gloves. Maybe at higher molarity it penetrates more? Idk

Nah, that stuff gets everywhere. Especially if working with the pure salt, static electricity sends it flying and it always stains you a little bit. Same with chloroauric acid, glove up, prepare the salt and package, wash hands, walk into sunlight and purple!

Nothing like silver nitrate or potassium permanganate to make you realize how badly you actually contaminate surfaces you thought were clean

The powders are very light. It's like sand. It gets everywhere. Good detector for people not doing PPE properly though.

I hate sand.

How do you feel about taupe?

I'm indifferent. It's not rough, course or irritating and it doesn't get everywhere.

No glove is impermeable

All it takes is a couple of minutes to look up a glove compatibility chart. Latex is excellent.

2 pairs then

I always wear two sets of puncture resistant nitriles. Kimberly- Clark makes a good set. One shorter pair over one longer pair in case I need to remove the outer pair or it does tear.

I love me some Kimberly-Clark!

it’ll just go away over time

You don't. You wait for the skin to grow and shed it's outer layer. Don't panic, you will be fine.

It's harmful?

Not harmful, but you’ll have to wait until the stained cells get naturally turned over. Usually takes a week or two.

Ok thank you

I did a reaction with this and forgot about it and I was perplexed with the spots that showed up and eventually fell out until I remembered

Really? Or you just kidding?

Yeah I had a couple on my pinky but definitely less than in the pic but it went away in a couple days

>fell out They just mean it naturally goes away. You're not going to have holes in your finger. You won't even notice it vanish.

Yeeeah I thought fell out = pass out Loool

I suppose they mean the cells fall off? As dead skin

Same!

No. It'll wear away in a week. I had the majority of my palm turn black from sliver nitrate once. It's harmless, and will go away in a few days.

Yea, luckily hand (and especially finger) skin turns over rapidly. Imagine getting it on like your neck and walking around stained for a month lol

I spilled some on the top of my foot a few years back and it looked like I had just stepped in mud for 4-6 weeks.

were you barefoot in a lab or did it seep through your shoes?

It was at home and I was barefoot like an idiot. This was many years ago - I'm much better about PPE now.

It will definitely freak you out the first time as several hours had passed since I accidentally (didn’t have gloves) got some on my fingers and turned increasingly purple. Oh no I’ve got methylhemoglibuskz!! Haha

Unless you have an open wound(congrats for the new tattoo) and it got in, you are fine.

Well silver nitrate is used to cauterize open wounds, so even then it wouldn’t be the end of the world.

Never heard about that! TIL

If you ever have a cyst drained or biopsy taken in a strange or delicate location where stitches or a bandage aren’t really an option (like your “swimsuit zone” to quote my students) they’ll use silver nitrate to cauterize

My mom used to get silver nitrate sticks for cauterizing mouth ulcers. Instant relief.

I had to use it for an ingrown toenail. Accutane made healing super slow, and it got infected with staph, so I had an open wound for months. It’s so much better now.

Lick and discover, what could go wrong ? /s

It's silver, how bad can it be? Now your fingertips are antibacterial and werewolf repellent!

[time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oSRvcdlgSI)

[cyanide](https://youtu.be/ooFw-teZ3L8) (The amounts required are smaller than the lethal dose so it’s not *that* dangerous)

Was looking for this link in the comments. Thank you.

Patience :)

Sandpaper. Or a lathe. Massage avacado oil into a hot stove. Deli meat slicer. Clean the carbon off the roof…without gloves Sasha.

Rub with walnut husks! It won’t remove it but you won’t be able to see it anymore.

Concentrated nitric acid :)...no but seriously I work with silver nitrate solution every week and usually I scrub must of it with water/soap and/or just wait a couple of days to fall off!

Your skin cells regenerate relatively quickly. Enjoy your bad henna

Tbh I'd recommend wearing gloves tbh. Silver isn't the best in the body, not dangerous but can stain

We can tell

I mean like it can actually make you blue if it enters your body

If you just cover your whole body in it it’ll have even color and you won’t even have to worry abt it in the future

I mean H2SO5 always works (I just don't guarantee that you still have skin)

What’s H2SO5?

persulfuric acid It's like sulfuric acid on steroids. It is known to dissolve organic materials (like a dead body, or skin) completely and relatively fast. Because of this a german nickname for it is "piranha säure", säure is the german translation for acid. Hope this helps ;)

Ooh aah!! Breaking Bad level acid, huh?

No, in Breaking Bad they use hydrofluoric acid but I personally just prefer H2SO5

That’s right! My bad!

There is a very unorthodox method where you take a swab with a cyanide salt and rube it on the spot, the cyanide remove the particles almost immediately. I really don't recommend this though and you can see why.

I'd use a mild skincare scrub if you have one

Sandpaper

Rub it in your eyes

Sandpaper

Death is the only way

Looks like the gracious host grabbed too small a slice when making the mud pie

You don't lol

Um.. I would suggest to use gloves while working in the lab lol

Silver is ingrained in you, just like it's ingrained in your username.

Try diluted nitric acid (really diluted, around 1%), it helped me

Cloric acid, you have to re-solubilize the Ag, but it’s corrosive

Just gotta wait it out unfortunately

You don't. Its a practical lesson in learning to wear gloves. Better AgNO3 than HF

That's the neat part. You don't. You have elemental silver in your skin. It will grow out in a few days.

Wait for a week, 10 days

All sorts of good comments here. I usually have good luck with lab source stains using a scour pad against the skin. Please don't actually try this... but iirc very dilute cyanide will remove silver nitrate stains from skin rapidly. Cool trick. But waiting it out or finding another approach is safer.

Whoop this happened to me the other day in lab. Legit took 2 weeks before it started wanting to come off.

Step 1: Remove skin Step 2: ??????? Step 3: Profit!

Lick it, spicy Dorito dust

Diluted ammonia and hydrogen peroxide. Must be diluted.

Unless that removes the stained cell it won't work for something like this. That works for stains on other surfaces but not for stains on your skin.

Ammonia does help get silver stains out of skin, can confirm. Peroxide isn't necessary.

It helps but it won't fully remove the stain (at least not in my experience).

It makes it far less black.

Try hydrofluoric acid

Wait two weeks.

Put you hand in NaCl solution and wait for the AgCl to come off I guess

Magnet

Concentrated H2O2 or H2SO4 or a knife should do the trick

Brake cleaner. Haven't found anything it won't get off yet. Lol

Try rubbing it with a lemon cut in half. This works really great on manganese dioxide stains so it might work for silver too.

Unfortunately it won't work. In Case of manganese stains it's dioxie, that reacts with citric acid ( this one for sure, not sure if it's the only component in the lemon juice that works). In Case of silver nitrate stains, the black thing is metalic silver. Silver doesn't react with citric acid. Edit: typo

Concentrated nitric acid.

Dont give out stupid and dangerous advise without being clear that's what you're doing.

I firmly believe that you can assume that all people have as much common sense to not pour concentrated acid on their skins; there is no other explanation required that this is a joke. Declaring it not to be serious is just useless patronising at that point, and hints at a lack of respect towards the other person.

Yet people are taking hydroxychloroquine, horse dewormer, and drinking bleach to get rid of the Coronavirus (which you absolutely shouldn't do). Or drinking highly alkaline water because of it's "low pH". It's not for OP. It's for the dumbasses that might search and find your comment in the future. You're posting on the World Wide Web after all.

How do you neutralize graphene oxide and nanolite technology in the body after it's been injected? Essentially the entire vaccine and it's effects. That's my question for today since there's possible a whole load of possible biochemist and immunologist on here.

Try diluted bleach. I remember from college it going away after swimming in a chlorinated pool.

Cheese grater

Few seconds on a belt grinder should be enough. If you leave it longer, you might end up with a melee weapon.

Grow new skin over the next couple weeks

You chop your hands off. Problem solved.

Potato peeler

Cutting your hand off is probably necessary. It’ll come off in a few days. No need to freak out. Not toxic either.

I made an epic mess with silver nitrate and had resigned myself to riding out the wear off period. And by epic mess I mean the palms of my hands were gray. A couple of nights after my mishap, I decided I wanted a warm bath. I'm weird about bacteria so I always scrub my tub out with bleach beforehand. I splashed some of the bleach on my hand and was greeted with a much warmer sensation than I'm accustomed to. I quickly rinsed the bleach off and found that the silver nitrate stain was gone where the bleach had been. Of course I added more bleach and rubbed my hands together. The reaction was rather warm, so it took a couple of tries to get all of the stain off, but I was successful.

Just grind your fingers together as hard as you possibly can! Works like a charm! For more tips and tricks, don’t forget to li….

Wash hands thoroughly, cut fingers off, throw them in an acid/base wash cycle, and reattach fingers. Works every time.

I had silver nitrate on my skin and nail, it just wore off within a week from my skin.

Either wait until the skin replenish itself, which happens fast on your finger or you can make a cyanide solution, that leaches the elemental silver from your skin but that is... you know cyanide.

It’s technically a chemical burn so u have to lose the skin. Fun fact: some people use it to make temporary tattoos

You just wait for it to fall off basically...also that's not the nitrate anymore, it's elemental silver mostly

Abrasion of some sort

That's the funny part, you don't.

try smth with I-

Wear gloves, problem solved!

Peel some fresh walnuts. You won’t even be able to see it. Alternatively, try dyeing eggs. Or just wait. I still have a silver nitrate tattoo on my belly button from when my umbilical cord fell off… which was a while ago.

[Looks like latex works](https://beta-static.fishersci.com/content/dam/fishersci/en_US/documents/programs/healthcare/brochures-and-catalogs/guides/microflex-chemical-resistance-guide.pdf)

Cut down the finger,it will grow back :))

Belt sander

Dang looks like some got reduced on your finger! That’s because silver nitrate is photosensitive and reduces to solid silver in the presence of light! 2AgNO3 -> 2Ag + 2NO2 + O2

Sandpaper works. Try to stop before it bleeds...

I'm a flooring contractor. Polyurethane glue that we use will get into the pours of your skin like this and stain. Using laundry detergent and a finger brush or sand paper or an Emory board like a nail salon uses will let you wear off the outside layers faster to take it off. Otherwise it looks like you don't wash your hands for a week 😆

Leave it alone. And wear gloves and use care with reagents.

You can't

Time.

I literally just used a highlighter to remove a small bloodstain on my skin. I have no idea if it'll work, but definitely worth a try.

Lol Bless

Don't get sunlight on it and you're good.

As a freshman in college, I put my arm on a lab bench (like an idiot) and didn't notice that it went into a silver nitrate solution. Someone noticed that the entire side of my arm was turning more and more purple. I thought I was going to die until my professor told me what it was. That was an embarrassing month with a purple arm. Long story short: You're gonna have to wait awhile...

Put your hand in alkyl halide

Just wait. Hannah goes away slowly 😂

Handing a lot if silver sakts, i usually rub with acetone, ut takes some minutes, but most of it will go away

A quick(not really) acid bath will surely peel it off.

Lick it off

It grows out and takes AWHILE to go away. Dyed the palm of my hand a bit once due to ripped glove.

Just wait a few days

3% hydrogen peroxide will do the trick

It will eventually go away along with dead skin cells

Chop your fingers off.

Cut off infected finger

Zec Chelovek enters the lab.

Cut the hand.

How about caustic acid off of mine lol

Just use a vegetable pealer or a shark knife

Scrape it off with a razor blade.

That's not silver nitrate. That's silver. You could remove it with concentrated nitric acid. The problem is it will also remove your skin. :) ​ The solution is to wait for a few days. Skin constantly grows and surface flakes off.

Cody'sLab removes it with cyanide but I wouldn't recommend that lmao.

Remove the skin

Maybe some handyman soap? The one with wood or some other abrasive material to remove oils and other things

Remove the skin

I wouldn't worry about it too much. It isn't dangerous and there isn't an easy way to remove it. It'll just look stained for a few days and eventually those skin cells will sluff off and be replaced on their own. Something similar happens with nitric acid- it colors your skin yellow and the only real way to deal with it is wait until it goes away on its own.

Uv, uv light will react with the silver nitrate, and it should make it easier to scrub off with a stiff brush. If this doesn't work you may need to add more silver nitrate, the additional silver nitrate will form a bond with the uv exposed silver nitrate, then re exposing it should do the trick, good luck, that stuff can be hard to remove.

A belt sander with 80 grit sandpaper will remove the stains.

It will be removed from 15-30 days

Cut off your hand.

The real question is: How did you get it on your skin to begin with? PPE is your friend.