I think the formula is 1:1 hydrochloric or sulfuric acid to hydrogen peroxide. You definitely want to do this in something that piranha solution won't eat through. That sound about right,
@cannabineer ? 1:1? I figured you'd know better.
Alternatively, the desert's pretty big, I hear.
Brace for my daybreak word dump!!
I would choose sulfuric. (I looked it up: peroxide plus sulfuric is the method
mafiosi call the
lupara bianca: the white shotgun.) Polyethylene or polypropylene would be my go-to containers.
I have added peroxide to hydrochloric acid ... in a hood. (I generally have no patience for working safely, but that mix evolves elemental chlorine gas rather briskly. I've used it to recover platinum, palladium and the odd other cool metal off spent catalysts (usually lab catalysts for hydrogenation, not automotive) when I didn't want to go with
aqua regia (hydrochloric plus 70% nitric), the other good noble metal dissolver. It is called "the kingly water" because it will dissolve the king of metals, gold.
The chlorine solution I do not expect to be a good formula for a batch of Inconvenient Corpse Remover.
~add~ After reading about it on Wiki, I am gonna whip up a bit of piranha solution and see how well it cleans my pipe with all those can't-reach percolators and shit. It is the sort of hold-my-beer overkill that endears me to the story of Ted Taylor, nuclear weaponeer. He worked on Project Orion, a tech with which we could launch a 4000-ton spacecraft direct to orbit and beyond ... rising on a chain of nuclear fire!
Not a very nice thing to do to our ecosphere, but dayum that would make an awesome newsreel. (Read Niven and Pournelle:
Footfall, a novel in which aliens come to us in a colony ship but don't ask us. Our team builds an Orion in a big warehouse in Bellingham. They put twelve-inch rifles on her that lob upgrades of the Grable device ( the nuclear artillery shell).
(abandon tangent) Ted Taylor lit a cigarette off a nuke test flash using a small parabolic mirror. I believe this holds the current record for "doing a small job with way too much tool".