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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1449120, member: 27832&quot;]Thanks, but I&#039;ll continue to use gloves when I work with concentrated sulfuric acid (or if I ever again work with concentrated nitric acid). I can personally attest that, no matter how fast you rinse either of these off, it&#039;s not fast enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also don&#039;t think the &quot;manual dexterity&quot; argument gets much traction in microbiology or pathology labs. Or, for that matter, in operating rooms -- where, I would argue, manual dexterity is much more important.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you carefully wash and rinse your hands, you&#039;ll get rid of gross contamination, and remove some (but not all) skin oils -- but then your hands will immediately start exuding more oil, salt water, and other chemicals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, is the risk of damaging coins with these substances less than the risk of damage from glove-induced clumsiness? Probably, especially since cotton gloves interfere more than the skin-tight, non-slip gloves used in labs or surgery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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