Chemical Injury

Although the informal language of many countries use the term of “burn” as well for thermal accidents as for chemical splashes, it would be judicious, as the German-speaking ones do it, to adopt different names.

Nitric acid is a strong acid, found in the nature in salt forms (nitrates), with the formula HNO3. Nitric acid is a strong oxidant that attacks almost all metals. By its ability to separate the gold from silver upon dissolution of this, it was once known as “aqua fortis”.