Lead and antimony are both sweet
Delicious rocks
Submitted 1 month ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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jambudz@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Uranium is … spicy.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 1 month ago
I know antimoney is sweet. That’s why I’m broke.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
And orpiment (arsenic sulfide) tastes like garlic!
icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s the sulphur. I bet Na2S tastes like MSG on asteroids.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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 1 month ago
Lead doesn’t taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Leaded wine is thought to be the cause of Beethoven’s deafness
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 month ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ok boomer
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You do know you can watch movies older than yourself, right?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Okay fetus and this wasn’t a boomer movie.
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 month 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 1 month ago
Baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar are minerals used for baking. Not very tasty on their own though.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 month ago
I mean, ice is technically a mineral so, that’s at least two tasty rocks
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 month 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 1 month ago
Like magma but gets hard at 0°C instead of 1000+.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 month ago
Average day of a geologist
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Those fuckers will lick anything.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yea, they’re quite Randy I hear
rcbrk@lemmy.ml 1 month 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 1 month ago
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 1 month ago
Bro never smoked crack.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
MSG seems to be the even better rock
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lead tastes quite sweet from what I hear
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Only lead acetate. Which makes me wonder about acetate of other have metals. Is uranium acetate even better?
xkbx@startrek.website 1 month ago
our body needs so many minerals so yes
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hell yeah, brother, fight the system! Don’t let Big Geology tell you want to do! Eat those rocks!
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
And on this day, a geologist was born
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
He gonna be disappointed until he tries crack rock
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lithium
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Eat this rock every day to make the visions stop.
EldenLord@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
They’re minerals, Marie!
unmagical@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Trona
Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Try cinnabar
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
to this I say:
go to sleep bro you’ve probably had a long day
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just stick with rock candy and salt. Minerals like cinnabar and orpiment have a short enjoyment period.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
But orpiment tastes like garlic!
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Full circle and back to the Paleolithic!
Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For reference:
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SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
You don’t need to sell it to me, I wanted to try before.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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 1 month ago
Das Lecken der elementaren Salzbildner ist strengstens verboten.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 1 month 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 1 month ago
Must be a reason something’s yellow and not red, so should be fine
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Pure mercury is pretty safe, actually.
youtube.com/watch?v=DNpdMz0Cfv0&t=124
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.