Which acid can successfully dissolve meat and bones?

It is a lie told by Hollywood.

Some people think Hydrofluoric acid is the king because of Breaking bad.

Jesse dumps a body in a bathtub, the floor dissolves.

It was a messy thing – but was also nonsense.

Hydrofluoric acid is a mean nasty thing. But it is weak – chemically.

It is a thing that does not dissociate enough to eat a man whole. It just pickles him – If you really need to get rid of the evidence, you want Hydrochloric acid.

The stomach uses a weak version to digest steak.

In high amounts the thing becomes a weapon – It eats the calcium in bones and breaks down the proteins – It turns a person into sludge.

But it takes days, not minutes and reeks bad – You have to stir it, like soup.

It is not a thing of magic – It is only chemistry – The business is slow, wet, gruesome work.