Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
While it may or may not meet your contextual definition of ‘rock’,… lead tastes somewhat sweet, apparently.
The Romans boiled grape juice in lead pots to produce a kind of syrup that was used to sweeten wine.
Lead is uh, a neurotoxin and likely carcinogen, so probably don’t lick the sweet rocks too much.
According to:
galleries.com/minerals/property/taste.htm
… apparently borax tastes sweet and… alkaline?
Chalcantite is described as ‘sweet metalic and slightly poisonous.’
Melanterite is apparently ‘sweet, astringent and metallic.’
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Leaded wine is thought to be the cause of Beethoven’s deafness
django@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Lead doesn’t taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.