Lead and antimony are both sweet
Delicious rocks
Submitted 10 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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jambudz@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Uranium is … spicy.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 10 months ago
I know antimoney is sweet. That’s why I’m broke.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
And orpiment (arsenic sulfide) tastes like garlic!
icelimit@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
That’s the sulphur. I bet Na2S tastes like MSG on asteroids.
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.’
django@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Lead doesn’t taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Leaded wine is thought to be the cause of Beethoven’s deafness
slaacaa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Routhinator@startrek.website 10 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ok boomer
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
You do know you can watch movies older than yourself, right?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Okay fetus and this wasn’t a boomer movie.
Routhinator@startrek.website 10 months ago
This was a millennial film. Boomers were parents when this film aired… Hell, so was a good portion of Gen X.
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar are minerals used for baking. Not very tasty on their own though.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 10 months ago
I mean, ice is technically a mineral so, that’s at least two tasty rocks
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 10 months 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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Like magma but gets hard at 0°C instead of 1000+.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
Average day of a geologist
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Those fuckers will lick anything.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yea, they’re quite Randy I hear
rcbrk@lemmy.ml 10 months 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 10 months ago
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 10 months ago
Bro never smoked crack.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
MSG seems to be the even better rock
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lead tastes quite sweet from what I hear
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Only lead acetate. Which makes me wonder about acetate of other have metals. Is uranium acetate even better?
xkbx@startrek.website 10 months ago
our body needs so many minerals so yes
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hell yeah, brother, fight the system! Don’t let Big Geology tell you want to do! Eat those rocks!
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Orpiment looks citrus-flavored, but when you lick it, it’s actually garlic-flavoured! These secrets have been hidden from us!
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
And on this day, a geologist was born
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months 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 10 months 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)
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
He gonna be disappointed until he tries crack rock
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lithium
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Eat this rock every day to make the visions stop.
EldenLord@lemmy.world 10 months 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
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 10 months ago
Reminder that Jan Zalasiewicz received an Ig Nobel price in 2023 “for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.”
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re minerals, Marie!
unmagical@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Trona
Formfiller@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Try cinnabar
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just stick with rock candy and salt. Minerals like cinnabar and orpiment have a short enjoyment period.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
But orpiment tastes like garlic!
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 9 months ago
to this I say:
go to sleep bro you’ve probably had a long day
niktemadur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Full circle and back to the Paleolithic!
Bahnd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For reference:
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SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
You don’t need to sell it to me, I wanted to try before.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 months 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 months ago
Das Lecken der elementaren Salzbildner ist strengstens verboten.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 10 months 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 10 months ago
Must be a reason something’s yellow and not red, so should be fine
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Pure mercury is pretty safe, actually.
youtube.com/watch?v=DNpdMz0Cfv0&t=124
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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.