Aha, yes, "terrifying" is a good description! I've mostly only heard about HF from my mom's stories about working in an assay lab ("does this chunk of rock have gold in it? no? how about this one? LET US SEND YOU MORE ROCKS IN OUR HOPEFULNESS" "nope, LOTS of arsenic in this sample though... no, seriously, lots"), so I didn't recognise the abbreviation.
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Date: 2013-10-30 07:53 pm (UTC)