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Delicious rocks
Submitted 19 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Bahnd@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
If we’re talking about licking it in it’s solid state, I don’t think solid hydrogen or helium would be in a lickable state.
ESPECIALLY solid helium, which needs to be at a temperature LESS than 3 Kelvin AND at 26 times atmospheric pressure. Not “OR”, AND
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 14 hours ago
You don’t need to sell it to me, I wanted to try before.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
A good start but Na and Cl are both individually as you really shouldn’t, put them together and you have tasty rocks.
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Das Lecken der elementaren Salzbildner ist strengstens verboten.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 4 hours ago
On the other hand, Hg is actually safe to lick. It’s a lot more noble than, for example, silver, so acids and bases won’t attack it. Lots of people even have it stored in their teeth, permanently.
ttyybb@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Must be a reason something’s yellow and not red, so should be fine
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Pure mercury is pretty safe, actually.
youtube.com/watch?v=DNpdMz0Cfv0&t=124anomnom@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
To lick?
Also I’ve heard that lead is sweet, but will never lick the solder even though thinking about it is making me really wonder.
rcbrk@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Asbestos can be used by kids as chewing gum:
Wittenoom’s roads were paved with asbestos tailings from the nearby mines and workers went home covered in a layer of deadly dust.
Children played in the lethal mineral, and some even stuffed it in their mouths as a substitute for chewing gum.
– www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-15/…/101433166FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
jambudz@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Lead and antimony are both sweet
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 7 hours ago
I know antimoney is sweet. That’s why I’m broke.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Uranium is … spicy.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Bro never smoked crack.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 9 hours ago
I mean, ice is technically a mineral so, that’s at least two tasty rocks
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 6 hours ago
I’m not a geologist so my explanation might not be 100% correct, but a mineral is a bunch of molecules set up in a crystalline pattern, so ice is a mineral form of water. Or water is the lava of ice, ice being technically a rock.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar are minerals used for baking. Not very tasty on their own though.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours 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.’
django@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Lead doesn’t taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
MSG seems to be the even better rock
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 4 hours ago
Reminder that Jan Zalasiewicz received an Ig Nobel price in 2023 “for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.”
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Average day of a geologist
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Those fuckers will lick anything.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yea, they’re quite Randy I hear
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
And on this day, a geologist was born
xkbx@startrek.website 19 hours ago
our body needs so many minerals so yes
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Lead tastes quite sweet from what I hear
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
Only lead acetate. Which makes me wonder about acetate of other have metals. Is uranium acetate even better?
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
He gonna be disappointed until he tries crack rock
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The other first-column chloride salts are mostly edible at some level. Potassium chloride is used in some low-sodium foods, I think. I saw a couple Aussies on YouTube once going down the column and putting them all on fries. Not sure if I’d be able to find it again though, it was pretty old
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
+1 for Explosions & Fire and Extractions & Ire. This guy puts out videos where he’s synthesizing various explosives or just extracting weird compounds from things, all laced with a blend of Aussie humor and shitposting. Highly recommend
drre@feddit.org 18 hours ago
There were arsenic in Styria
From the English Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_trioxide?wprov=sfla…
In Austria, there lived the so-called “arsenic eaters of Styria”, who ingested doses far beyond the lethal dose of arsenic trioxide without any apparent harm. Arsenic is thought to enable strenuous work at high altitudes, e.g. in the Alps."
(The German Wikipedia has a whole article on this: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenikesser?wprov=sfla1)
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They’re minerals, Marie!
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Lithium
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Eat this rock every day to make the visions stop.
EldenLord@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Well atleast you probably won‘t get Alzheimer‘s if you eat lithium every day. But that might be attributed to the life-ending attributes of lithium poisoning
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Just stick with rock candy and salt. Minerals like cinnabar and orpiment have a short enjoyment period.
unmagical@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Trona
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Just drink lava
BilSabab@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
seems like some kind of reasonable behavior in some other country
Routhinator@startrek.website 7 hours ago
Image
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Ok boomer
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
You do know you can watch movies older than yourself, right?