Ammonia ?

Question

Today in chem class are teacher wanted us to take a small smell of ammonia and i guess by the time it got to me it was shooken up enough and when i got it my eyes went blood shot red and i couldn't breath its been about 4 hours sense that and i still have the nasty ammonia smell in my nose is this normal and will it go away. It was liquid ammonia in a container filled half way so there was a good amount of it in the container.

Answer 1

Yes, that's normal, and it will go away.

In the future, be more careful when smelling chemicals.  Don't stick your nose in there and suck a bunch in.  And be glad you learned on something fairly harmless.

Answer 2

What did you do, snort some of the liquid?  It sounds unusual that you can still smell it if you only inhaled some of the vapor.

Answer 3

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