Easy enough to do, unless you only have 16 of them. You'll go through half of them in about 3 minutes. You use any more than that and you will have none left to collect anything with.If there is ever any caustic damage keep a decontamination limpet clamped to your ship, as soon as one expires fire another.
They've once again made it so damn tedious and ridiculous that it's just not worth doing. It's more annoying than anything else. I really wanted to have fun with this, but just can't. It's freaking ridiculously frustrating.