Lead and antimony are both sweet
Delicious rocks
Submitted 2 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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jambudz@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Uranium is … spicy.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 2 months ago
I know antimoney is sweet. That’s why I’m broke.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And orpiment (arsenic sulfide) tastes like garlic!
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
That’s the sulphur. I bet Na2S tastes like MSG on asteroids.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 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 2 months ago
Lead doesn’t taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Leaded wine is thought to be the cause of Beethoven’s deafness
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok boomer
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You do know you can watch movies older than yourself, right?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Okay fetus and this wasn’t a boomer movie.
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 months ago
I mean, ice is technically a mineral so, that’s at least two tasty rocks
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 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 2 months ago
Like magma but gets hard at 0°C instead of 1000+.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 months ago
Average day of a geologist
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those fuckers will lick anything.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yea, they’re quite Randy I hear
rcbrk@lemmy.ml 2 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 2 months ago
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 2 months ago
Bro never smoked crack.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
MSG seems to be the even better rock
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lead tastes quite sweet from what I hear
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Only lead acetate. Which makes me wonder about acetate of other have metals. Is uranium acetate even better?
xkbx@startrek.website 2 months ago
our body needs so many minerals so yes
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
And on this day, a geologist was born
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
He gonna be disappointed until he tries crack rock
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lithium
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eat this rock every day to make the visions stop.
EldenLord@lemmy.world 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
They’re minerals, Marie!
unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Trona
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Try cinnabar
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just stick with rock candy and salt. Minerals like cinnabar and orpiment have a short enjoyment period.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But orpiment tastes like garlic!
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
to this I say:
go to sleep bro you’ve probably had a long day
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Full circle and back to the Paleolithic!
Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For reference:
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SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
You don’t need to sell it to me, I wanted to try before.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 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 2 months ago
Das Lecken der elementaren Salzbildner ist strengstens verboten.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 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 2 months ago
Must be a reason something’s yellow and not red, so should be fine
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Pure mercury is pretty safe, actually.
youtube.com/watch?v=DNpdMz0Cfv0&t=124
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 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.