Jyllian Kemsley in the C & ENew Safety Zone blog reposted this photo showing what can happen with the wrong gloves are worn:
"The organic solvent dichloromethane carried 3,4-ethylenedioxypyrrole through this researcher’s nitrile gloves. The compound polymerized onto the person’s fingers, forming poly-3,4-ethylenedioxypyrrole, a blue-black conductive polymer of unknown toxicity."(The large number of conjugated double bonds absorb the short wavelengths and give the polymer its blue/black color, typical of many conductive polymers.)
Before you glove up, either refer to the MSDS (yes, they really do have useful information at times like this) or any of the manufacturer's compatibility charts. This page has a link to most of the manufacturers (scroll down to find them). There is no excuse for these types of images to ever occur (although it is going into my archive, since I'm sure I'll be repeating this warning in future. Sadly.)
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