Timeline for Is there a real life substance like movie acid?
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| Aug 16, 2021 at 11:57 | comment | added | vulcan_ | if the goal is dissolving a body don't forget the really strong alkaline chemicals. They are admittedly slow to work tho | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 8:09 | comment | added | Aify | A year late, but related: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/21908/… | |
| Mar 4, 2018 at 9:47 | comment | added | KalleMP | If you want to have a pretty reaction then mercury on aluminium can be quite ornamental. - youtube.com/watch?v=IrdYueB9pY4 | |
| Dec 31, 2017 at 19:13 | answer | added | mreff555 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 15:18 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | While it's the opposite of an acid, lye is quite effective if it's organic material you want to corrode/melt. Left as a comment because I don't feel like writing a detailed answer; maybe someone else will. | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 1:05 | comment | added | Shalvenay | @cobaltduck -- problem is, the nitric acid would probably go off and react with the diphenyl oxalate + dye to produce...carbonaceous gunk with the occasional nitro group attached. | |
| Jun 1, 2017 at 8:46 | comment | added | Grimm The Opiner | Ah. Remember that scene in Breaking Bad? Highlights a very relevant point too, no acid eats everything, each acid melts certain things. Like bathtubs. | |
| Jun 1, 2017 at 4:44 | comment | added | jpmc26 | @cobaltduck That's be pretty funny, actually. "What's in there?" "Oh, that? Nitric acid! With a few ingredients mixed in to make it more menacing. Must keep up appearances, being an evil genius and all." | |
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| May 31, 2017 at 20:53 | comment | added | James | The goggles do nothing! | |
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| May 30, 2017 at 23:30 | answer | added | Shalvenay | timeline score: 59 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 21:41 | comment | added | alephzero | A better option for "dissolving" large objects would be an enzyme, not an acid. That would act as a catalyst that was "recycled" as the reaction proceeded, rather than being "used up" in the reaction itself. But if the end products of the reaction were liquids, it would still be diluted. My chemistry is too rusty to propose anything specific. | |
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| May 30, 2017 at 20:23 | answer | added | R. Barrett | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 17:56 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | There's always the aptly-named FOOF. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxygen_difluoride | |
| May 30, 2017 at 16:39 | comment | added | Theraot | You could grow bateria to eat metals and glow green, although that is not a chemical per se. | |
| May 30, 2017 at 16:29 | answer | added | Philipp | timeline score: 32 | |
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| May 30, 2017 at 15:35 | answer | added | Slimer | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 15:30 | comment | added | Michael | The best color for the "stereotypical" acid is probably chartreuse. | |
| May 30, 2017 at 15:18 | answer | added | Slimer | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 15:13 | answer | added | Joe Kissling | timeline score: 106 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 14:48 | answer | added | sphennings | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 14:44 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | This is for a chemistry stack exchange. Maybe if you would drop point 4 - I've never seen that in fiction, glowing acid. I can think of a couple of answers, so please specify what you mean. 1: "gross" - do you have a specific shade of green in mind? This one is easy. 2: Well, if you boil it or if a chemical reaction is taking place - why else would it boil? Are you ok with it boiling because it was heated? 3: I don't know, if it's boiling, it could melt butter (which is a stuff), do you mean oxidize? Some acids do that. Maybe you mean a strong acid? 4: Chemiluminescence? | |
| May 30, 2017 at 14:44 | comment | added | cobaltduck | I wonder whether you'd allow a mixture of multiple materials, for example a tub of warm water to which we add: nitric acid, Cyamlume(R), a hunk of dry ice in the bottom, and an appropriate blend of food dyes. Nitric acid gives us the "melt stuff", Cyalume gives us "glow" and a bit of color, dry ice provides the "bubble and or smoke menacingly" and the dyes finish off the "gross green color." | |
| May 30, 2017 at 14:44 | answer | added | Keelhaul | timeline score: 8 | |
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