Why is it not advisable to wash hands with soap after it has been stained by concentrated nitric acid?

Are you a chemists? maybe you can answer this...


its for our latest activity in chem lab...thanks!Why is it not advisable to wash hands with soap after it has been stained by concentrated nitric acid?
It's advised to rinse your hands with soap and water if you come in contact with concentrated nitric acid. You'd be in a lot of pain, as nitric acid is extremely corrosive and would react to the moisture in skin.





There could be the implied idea that washing your hands with glycerin soap would make nitroglycerin and blow you up, but making nitroglycerin is a little bit more complicated than that.Why is it not advisable to wash hands with soap after it has been stained by concentrated nitric acid?
I'm not a chemist but I thought Nitric acid was one of the stronger ones. Likely there is something in the chemistry of soap (check out the chemical formulation of soaps) that will react with the residue and create more problems. Check out treatment procedures for acid burns in the meds library.