Safety Considerations
Zinc chloride is a skin and respiratory irritant according to its MSDS. Precautions that apply to anhydrous ZnCl2 are those applicable to other anhydrous metal halides, i.e. hydrolysis can be exothermic and contact should be avoided. Concentrated solutions are acidic and corrosive and specifically attack cellulose and silk as Lewis acids.
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