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your finger touches nitric acid and you observea on your fingers, what functional group(s) in your skin is (are) If by mistake (dont try it) yellow color (responsible for this reaction?
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Answer: Nitric acid is corrosive in nature and a powerful oxidizing agent. Concentrated nitric acid stains human skin yellow if touched by mistake it is due to its reaction with the Keratins as it contains a high amount of the smallest of the 20 amino acids, glycine, whose side group is a single hydrogen atom. They also have high proportion of the next smallest, alanine, whose functional side group is the small and noncharged methyl group.

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