Comment on It's a trap!

• Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like someone tried:

  Uranyl salts are toxic and can cause severe chronic kidney disease and acute tubular necrosis. Target organs include the kidneys, liver, lungs and brain. Uranyl ion accumulation in tissues including gonocytes produces congenital disorders, and in white blood cells causes immune system damage. Uranyl compounds are also neurotoxins. Uranyl ion contamination has been found on and around depleted uranium targets.

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• RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Decay

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  • adj16@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does Uranium decay when it’s in compounds with other elements? What happens to the bonds when it turns into some other element? What happens to the compound?

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Chemical bonds can affect decay rates IIRC, but it’s not usually a huge difference. The nucleus is still going to be unstable. It definitely changes the molecule (and might break it)

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      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Chemical bonds can affect decay rates IIRC

        That’s interesting. Only read about this in High School and maybe because of the “not usually a huge difference”, it was claimed that chemical bonds don’t affect decay rates.
        I always felt a bit weird with that conclusion, but maybe it was just to make the maths easier, not having to include effects from another force into the calculations.

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was reading about some terribly unholy chemistry once where the researchers wanted to make a molecule but it just wouldn’t happen. So they instead made it with a radioactive isotope of a heavier element, then as it decays the molecule becomes their desired product.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_technique

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      • adj16@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That is SICK. I love science hacks. Thank you for sharing!

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• model_tar_gz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Green Skittles

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and then blood.

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    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the aftertaste. Comes after quite a while.

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• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Peroxide and dead mouth flesh.

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i dont know, but since it is produced in a stage of uranium enrichmet, and chemists have a worrying tendency to accidentally taste stuff, I am convinced there’s someone out there who knows.

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