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Does anyone have or have heard of this chemical.

My husband has recently started working as a maintenance electricial in a Lime mine.
He has to have a container of this chemical on his belt at all time in case of the lime getting on his skin or more importantly in his eyes.

I have Googled it and wonder why we havent heard of it before as it seems the only thing it doesn't "neutralise" is Hydroflouric acid.

It works some how by attracting the chemical to itself and preventing it from damaging the skin.
This site tells you a bit about it.

http://www.prevor.com/EN/sante/RisqueCh ... TvxRec.php

It's even being used as an Neutaliser/antidote for Mustard Gas.

How strange I just put it through chemwatch and no match found. Is that the commercial name or there a main ingredient?

macca wrote:How strange I just put it through chemwatch and no match found. Is that the commercial name or there a main ingredient?

Diphoterine® is the commercial name.

It contains a polyvalent amphoteric salt as the proprietory active ingredient.

That appears to be code for: "we're not going to tell you how to make this yourself, duh."