> We have no idea what "molecular" acid is
I think YOU are the one that has no idea what "molecular acid is".
Classification of compounds. Thus, acids are defined as proton donors. The most common acids are aqueous solutions of HCl (hydrochloric acid), H2SO4 (sulfuric acid), HNO3 (nitric acid), and H3PO4 (phosphoric acid). Bases, on the other hand, are proton acceptors.
There is a pretty interesting web page on "super acids"
https://edu.rsc.org/everyday-chemistry/whats-the-strongest-acid-in-the-world/4014526.article
No. That title falls to fluoroantimonic acid – a superacid mixture of antimony pentafluoride and hydrofluoric acid. You see, HF loves the idea of donating a fluorine to SbF5, and the resulting SbF6- anion is relatively stable. This all results in what is sometimes (wrongly) called a naked proton (it’s actually ‘solvated’ by a number of other HF molecules to form a fluoronium ion). This super acidic system is the strongest ever measured, with a Hammett acidity function of -28. That’s 100,000 times stronger than magic acid.
Put a lid on it?
This leaves us with only one question: what on earth do you keep it in? Here’s a substance so corrosive it will eat through any container, even one made of glass. The answer is poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE), or Teflon, thanks to its many C–F bonds – famously described as the toughest bond in organic chemistry. Just the thing to contain the strongest acid in the world
The point is that we see the Alien's blood eating through everything, and not being used up even after going through deck after deck. So, how does its body keep from being eaten up by the acid - if it could exist. The answer is - it cannot exist. And if it could exist, what would it eat to get so much fluorine to make the powerful fluorine bonds that science says it needs to not being dissolved by its own acid?
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