Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Good Work Practices; Disposal and Storage; Hazard Summary. Hydrofluoric acid (HF) and Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) are very poisonous, highly irritating and corrosive.

Although chemists consider hydrofluoric acid (HF) to be a “weak” acid, its potential to produce serious health effects greatly exceeds that of “strong” acids commonly used in the laboratory. HF shares ...

While hydrofluoric acid is used at about about 50 of the nation’s 150 refineries to make high-octane gasoline, Valero’s Wilmington refinery and Torrance Refining Co., owned by PBF Energy, are ...

Hydrofluoric acid, when exposed to the air, can create a toxic ground-hugging cloud that can move on the wind and injure or kill those in its path, causing damage to bones and tissue.

Hydrofluoric acid is a dangerous inorganic acid that is widely used in electronics manufacturing, glass etching, removal of rust, pest control in agriculture and heavy-duty domestic cleaning.1 The ...