fun fact, mention of severe burns
fun chemistry fact: when working with concentrated (70%) or fuming (near-pure) nitric acid, it's generally recommended *not* to wear gloves, not because the nitric acid is safe (it's very much not), but because common lab gloves make it *so much worse*
nitric acid at these concentrations will react very violently with both latex and nitrile, setting your gloves on fire. This is not good for your hands.
It will also react very quickly with skin and cause chemical burns in short order but nowhere near as bad as the burns you'd get from your gloves being literally on fire
i'm not sure if you can get any gloves that are resistant to fuming nitric acid, but i'm pretty sure neoprene can withstand small amounts of concentrated nitric acid. so that might be better than nothing
-F
fun fact, mention of severe burns
@Felthry
Same reasoninging as working with liqvid nitrogen is safer without simple latex gloves than with. They will freeze to your flesh which is far more severe than the freezing burns your skin will experience and heal from.