Is there an acid so corrosive in nature, it could even erode its way onto glass, diamond or gold?
Answer:
Fluorides rapidly munch through glass to give [SiF6](-2).
Gold is corroded by saline plus air, faster by cyanide plus air.
Diamond combusts in molten nitrates. Poof!
If you want chemical resistance you go for Hastelloy C2000. Its corrosion rate even in hot Green Death is thousandths of an inch/year.
S2S gas, common around producing oil or gas wells will definitely erode gold, although I am not sure about diamonds or glass.
I don't know, but what would you keep it in?
hydrofluoric acid
HF or hydrofluoric acid will etch or eat through glass. There is no acid known that will erode or eat through a diamond. The only way a diamond can undergo that process is to heat it at very very high temperatures. As far as Gold goes there is one acid, well actually a mixture of two acids(aqua regia) that will dissolve it. Aqua regia is 3 parts hydrochloric acid to one part nitric acid.
The strongest acid on earth is a 80% solution of Antimony Pentaflouride in Hyrdoflouric Acid. This acid solution is so strong that they could only measure a 50% solution. Just to give you an idea of how strong a 50% solution is, it would be equivalent to an acid 1018 times stronger than concentrated
sulfuric acid!! Pretty strong huh?
By the way, this acid is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the strongest acid known.
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