Does anyone who’s seen it know if the season 1, episode 2 Breaking Bad scene involving hydrofluoric acid and a bathtub is chemically accurate? Not that I am planning to employ a similar technique, but a friend just recommended this series and I have started to download episodes. (thanks, abby) Thanks in advance for any insights.
Never seen the show, but I think they use hydrofluoric acid to clean bathtubs before they refinish them. You know, those people who come to your house to restore your old tub.
I don’t know what purity the hydrofluoric acid they use for this, if they do, is.
So what happens in Breaking Bad?
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The quick, cynical description would be that it’s a remake of Weeds with a single dad replacing the single mom and meth replacing pot.
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(WARNING — SPOILER!): Adam — the chemistry teacher who is one of the main characters (and meth dealers) instructs his partner in crime, a former student he failed in his chemistry class, to obtain a polyethylene bin for the purpose of disposing of a body by dissolving it in HF. Because the ne’er-do-well cannot find a bin large enough, he does the dirty deed in the porcelain bathtub. When he tells the teacher what he has done, they are at the foot of the stairs just beneath the bathroom about to rush up the stairs in horror and alarm when the HF finishes eating thru the bathtub and the floor and ceiling beneath. Quite a partially-digested mess landing right at their feet.
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